I live in a sober living apartment building. They sometimes get donation boxes from different places and you can ask the security guard to let you back to where they keep them and pick out whatever you need. I think I influenced them and got them into some good habits with that by bringing back to the wellness center on the bottom floor what I didn’t use one month and explaining my reasoning that someone else might need it, because then later they told me to do that when I took a box a different month as if they had come up with the idea. Felt like I made a difference, even though they pretended like it was totally their ingenious social worker idea. Anyway, now it basically constitutes a food pantry anyone here can access with the security guard’s permission. They give you resources in the wellness center that point you to local food banks and sometimes offer to drive people there. Others have their own cars and can drive each other.
Step one: be in an apartment building that won’t immediately remove it.
I’m using this article as inspiration for my own tenant organizing, the goal is to get all of my neighbors on board and then do a march on the landlord with a signed petition demanding the space. It becomes much harder to reject at that point
I wish you luck, but give low odds of success.
I lived in an apartment building that once had a “free stuff” corner near the entrance where people would put stuff out that was in good condition that they no longer needed, but the landlord would remove everything at least once per month. They worried about fire hazard and insurance and clutter and such. But if there was food, I’d wager they’d have stopped it entirely. Someone has an allergic reaction to something in the community pantry? Who is at fault?
The person that grabbed the food is at fault, same as a grocery store, food pantry, or nearly anywhere else.
I have a hard time not having my bicycle (or parts thereof) stolen in my building
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There are several reasons, my personal reasons include the formation of a tenant union and mutual aid toward my neighbors.
I love the intention, but this is a horrible idea on so many levels.
And why is that?
I’m hoping it’s gonna turn out to be a pun about the apartment building being on many levels
