When tenants win rights enshrined by legislation, it’s because we’ve fought our landlords. The mass rent strikes in New York’s Lower East Side tenements brought us building codes that mandate basic habitability standards, the requirement of a court process to legally evict, and the country’s first rent controls.2 During World War II, militant tenants physically blocked evictions and inspired national protections against price gouging in the form of rent control. The tenant movement of the 1960s and ’70s, including an intrepid squatters movement that laid claim to abandoned housing, managed to reestablish limits that had been rolled back in cities nationwide.3 Like all history, housing policy is a product of class struggle.