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International Union of Tenants  

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  • Founded in 1926 in Zurich, Switzerland, the International Union of Tenants (IUT) focuses on issues of poverty and homelessness by exploring them as they specifically apply to tenants. A nongovernmental organization with forty-eight member groups in forty-two countries, the IUT has one regional office in Prague, Czech Republic, which manages the member organizations in central and eastern Europe, and another in Tanzania, which manages members in East Africa (Tanzania, Kenya, Benin, and Uganda). [Source: Encyclopedia of Homelessness; International Union of Tenants]

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