[1] IUT's stated aims include safeguarding the interests of tenants and the promotion of affordable healthy housing throughout the world.

[4][5][6] The Head office of IUT is located in Stockholm, Sweden and Marie Linder, from the Swedish Union of Tenants, has been president since 2019.

[7][6] IUT runs a liaison office in the European Union in Brussels, where Barbra Steenbergen is the head.

[8] The founding congress also included unions from Czechoslovakia, Danzig, Hungary, Denmark, the UK, and France.

[9] Following the election of Adolf Hitler in 1933 tensions within the League escalated, with the outbreak of WWII the organisation ceased to operate.