Hotspots of harassment
Sharing
information
Expose
the trends
and
stop harassment

RenterHarassment.com proposes to track the kind of phenomena that are often related to harassment but tend to be anonymous and difficult to connect to a trend. We are exploring how we can assist with sharing this kind of information and hope to develop this page into such a resource. In the interim, consider checking with your local tenants' rights organization to encourage them to create searchable online databases sharing such information. If you have a tenants' rights organization that tracks renter harassment related to development and real estate interests, let us know.

Documentation should be shared to make visible city-wide trends in major cities like New York, San Francisco and Chicago. Only then will it be clear that a pattern of harassing renters exists in your neighborhood or city. Consider the following:

• If you are a renter whose tires are constantly chalked and you can get documentation of the complaints from the city, your advocacy on your own behalf could aid others, but only if we create a database and collect information across neighborhoods and cities.

• If you have documentation that tends to connect your harassment to real estate or development interests, comparing it with other information could reveal whether there is a pattern of renter harassment that is accepted and even encouraged in your community.

For example, it may become obvious that renters are systematically dislocated by the same developers as they move from neighborhood to neighborhood, building evermore expensive houses and promising to increase the property values of home owners.