holden taylor

holden taylor is a tenant unionist, an adjunct professor at Baruch College, a PhD candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center writing on tenancy and housing financialization, an organizer with the Marxist Unity Group, and an activist with CUNY on Strike, a rank-and-file formation within CUNY’s Professional Staff Congress. They write mostly about the self-organization of working-class tenants and the political economy from which such organization is born, both historical and contemporary. This is an interest in the political potency of working-class people at the site of their homes, with their neighbors, in their community, and in opposition to the dispossessory auspices of real estate, landlords, and their capital enmeshments. They are a founder of the Brooklyn Eviction Defense Tenant Union, a borough-wide, independent organization of tenants cultivating class power building by building and block by block.