Annie Powers
Biography
Annie Powers is a scholar of landless people’s political movements in the United States. She studies the history of housing and homelessness – and poor people’s urban land struggle – in the US and the world. Annie is an organizer with Union de Vecinos, the Eastside Local of the Los Angeles Tenants Union.
Subfield
History of homelessness and landlessness
History of housing and tenancy
History of revolutionary people's movements
Research
Dissertation in progress: “A Force of Potential Revolutionaries”: the National Union of the Homeless and the Struggle for Urban Land, 1984-1995 and beyond
Publications
It Is Only Possible to Fail if We Forget. Tents and Tenants: After Echo Park Lake, Skid Row Arts Magazine & Los Angeles Poverty Department exhibition catalog, January 2025.
With Tracy Rosenthal, Seizing the Means of Reproduction. Death Panel podcast, November 2024.
With Leonardo Vilchis-Zarate, How tenant unions are finding power in numbers to fight LA’s housing crisis. Los Angeles Times, April 2024.
With Tracy Rosenthal, The Homeless Industrial Complex: A Syllabus for Fighting Back. 2022.
Lead author with the After Echo Park Lake Research Collective, Blueprint for the Future: Unhoused Tenant Organizing in Los Angeles. Radical Housing Journal Volume 4, Issue 1, July 2022.
With the After Echo Park Lake Research Collective, Continuum of Carcerality: How Liberal Urbanism Governs Homelessness. Radical Housing Journal Volume 4, Issue 1, July 2022.
With the After Echo Park Research Collective, Dis(Placement): The Fight for Housing and Community After Echo Park Lake. UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy, 2022.
“You’re Contaminating Us”: Los Angeles continues illegal eviction sweeps despite the COVID-19 crisis. Knock LA, 2021.
