Corporate Landlords Show Racist Eviction Patterns

A new study shows that the largest corporate landlords in L.A. are “surgically” and “deeply disproportionately” evicting Black tenants.

The study is the first to show both the racial pattern of eviction and the type of landlord responsible.

The findings raise possibilities for tenants to fight back against eviction through organizing and legal action.

Corporate landlords are systematically attracting Black residents into white, upmarket neighborhoods, stripping their wealth, and then kicking them out again.

In many cases, these tenants have been dislocated from L.A. altogether.

The Tenant Power Toolkit is an attempt to break that cycle.

Equity Residential, in a bristly email, questioned the data in the study.

The toolkit provides frontline defense for individual tenants.

When people use it to respond to an eviction filing, the Debt Collective invites them to a workshop where organizers direct them to legal resources.

LATU organizers often support users of the toolkit for legal tasks, such as responding to discovery requests.