Hartford, CT — Three years ago, Dave Richardson was spending half of his monthly income on an apartment with rats, roaches and a broken elevator. A stroke had made climbing the stairs difficult, forcing him to limit trips outside of his third-floor home. Other wheelchair-bound tenants had to be physically carried up and down.

The landlord was ignoring phone calls, Richardson says, but one day in 2022, a group of organizers came to his door with a pitch to build a tenants union.

It didn’t take much to convince Richardson. Before his stroke, he had spent nearly two decades as a member and elected officer of the carpenters’ union. The prospect of mobilizing neighbors to demand a working elevator, for starters, made intuitive sense.

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