For episode twenty-six, I spoke with Mark Fearer who is a political activist and op-ed columnist who is passionate about tenants’ rights and rent control. Mark writes a bi-weekly column for The Boulder Weekly called The Unrepentant Tenant which argues for better protections for renters, educates readers on the rights of tenants, advocates for rent control, and writes about these various issues in the context of local and national history. I appreciate Mark’s even keel approach even in the face of my comparatively animated and perhaps less grounded arguments challenging his defense of rent control. This episode stirred up a lot of issues in my brain and helped me start thinking more seriously about tenants’ rights and housing security for renters. I admire Mark’s relentless insistence that housing is a human right and that we can do better for renters in Boulder.