For nine months, Nash Stabolito has tried to organize a tenant union with fellow residents of his Skid Row single-room occupancy hotel and nearby properties owned by his landlord.
Stabolito said that his landlord, the nonprofit AIDS Healthcare Foundation, has stymied the unionization efforts. The foundation has stopped him from handing out fliers, blocked union meetings in the buildings.
Stabolito said he was 'flabbergasted' to learn that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development this month awarded the foundation $10 million to promote tenant organizing.
The L.A.-based nonprofit, which received $2.5 billion in revenue last year largely from its chain of pharmacies, is one of the nation's largest funders of tenant's rights campaigns.
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