Tara Raghuveer

Tara Raghuveer is the director of the Tenant Union Federation (TUF), a national union of unions organizing tenants to wield power at a massive scale. Previously, she was the director of Homes Guarantee campaign. In these roles, she has trained thousands of tenants, organized campaigns to win federal tenant protections through the White House, Treasury Department, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and the Federal Housing Finance Agency. She is a frequent writer and commentator on housing policy and the economy.

Raghuveer is also the founding director of KC Tenants, the 10,000+ member citywide tenant union in Kansas City, MO, responsible for the city's Tenants Bill of Rights (2019), Right to Counsel (2021), Source of Income Discrimination Ban (2024), and an Office of Language Access (2024). The union organized to stop thousands of pandemic evictions through escalated direct action (2021), to win a $50 million bond for housing under 30% Area Median Income (2022), to win $10.5 million for the City's housing trust fund (2022), to elect four members of City Council (2023), to defeat a $2 billion regressive tax that would have funded a downtown stadium (2024), and in recent years to support three properties towards the largest and longest rent strikes in regional history (2024-2025).