Press conference today at the Paradise Apartments

Terrence Gordon (pictured) was one of the residents facing eviction by Council Member Robert Blackmon.
 
Terrence, 62, told reporters “I’ve been homeless before, I don’t want to be homeless again”
This is the lived experience of countless individuals and families here in Pinellas county. Those experiencing the fear and trauma of eviction here on a daily basis are suffering in silence.
It goes beyond Robert Blackmon’s errors.
 
It goes beyond individual slumlords and gentrifiers.
 
Housing insecurity and homelessness represent deep moral failures of our society and of our Capitalist economic system. It is a failed system that has never, and will never, provide for the most vulnerable.
We need guaranteed housing here in the Sunshine City and in cities across the country.
 
Not affordable.
 
Not attainable.
 
Guaranteed.

Anything less is an injustice, and our Union will continue to struggle alongside our friends in neighbors against the exploitation and violence of landlordism.

All power to the tenants! All power to the people!