HUD Tenant Organizer

The Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco (HRCSF) is a tenants’ rights non-profit serving tenants citywide since 1979, offering free counseling and organizing support for San Francisco tenants in all types of housing, including rent-control, public housing, and Section 8. Our purpose is to strengthen tenants’ rights, improve living conditions for renters, and preserve and expand affordable housing opportunities. Through our counseling program, we support more than 5,000 tenants a year, and our organizing program has helped build five tenant associations across the city since 2019.

The HUD Tenant organizer will support tenants living in HUD subsidized buildings in San Francisco to develop and grow powerful tenants associations in these buildings. In collaboration with the HUD Organizing Team and tenant leaders, the HUD Tenant Organizer helps carry out campaigns aimed at winning timely repairs, improved building maintenance, and preserving the long-term affordability and habitability of HUD-subsidized housing.

The Organizer supports tenants to identify shared concerns and move from individual frustration to coordinated collective action with their neighbors through door-to-door outreach and phone-banking, 1-1 conversations, facilitating tenant meetings, coordinating tenant actions, and identifying and developing tenant leaders. The Organizer will also assist with policy initiatives that support HUD tenants and the needs of low-income and immigrant communities. Experience supporting diverse communities is essential to the position, as is a long-term commitment to social justice.

• Conduct door-to-door outreach, phone banking, and one-on-one organizing conversations with tenants in HUD-subsidized buildings.
• Support the development of majority-based tenant associations through participation tracking and structure tests.
• Identify and develop tenant leaders capable of taking responsibility within tenant associations.
• Convene and facilitate regular tenant meetings, tenant association meetings, and orientations in HUD-subsidized buildings.
• Participate in campaign planning and implementation with HUD tenants, including petitions, meetings with property management, engagement with HUD oversight processes, public testimony, and coordinated collective actions.
• Deliver Know Your Rights education and political education that connects tenants’ experiences in HUD housing to collective organizing and advocacy.
• Map and assess HUD-subsidized buildings in San Francisco to identify organizing opportunities and connect tenants with organizing and counseling resources.
• Maintain accurate outreach logs, participation tracking, databases, and reports in compliance with organizational and funder requirements.
• Meet regularly with HRCSF staff for supervision and cross-program coordination.
• Represent HRCSF in coalition spaces, tenant meetings, and community gatherings related to HUD housing as assigned.
• Other administrative, organizational, and coalitional tasks as needed.

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• Experience (paid or unpaid) working for social and economic justice.
• Knowledge of issues impacting tenants, immigrants, and people with low incomes.

• Demonstrated commitment to social and economic justice and a belief in collective organizing as a tool for building tenant power to advance housing justice for working class communities.
• Commitment to stopping Black displacement in San Francisco
• Knowledge of issues impacting tenants, immigrants, and people with low incomes.
• Demonstrated ability to build trust and develop relationships with tenants and community members across diverse communities.
• Ability to identify, support, and develop tenant…