An intergenerational friendship cultivated by the mutuality of housing problems and finding greater agency and strength in unity.
“I like organizing,” Jarquin said. “That’s why I’ve stayed around. Because I’ve made friends.”
It’s the same for Trinh, who said the goal of the Los Angeles Tenants Union is not just to win repairs, but to “discover our kinship with one another, transform our social relations and transform our ways of seeing.”