This week KC Tenants decided to play a game of chicken with the living situation of vulnerable people.
We're honestly hoping that this is all staged bad political theater because we wouldn't want to imagine that any protest group would be so reckless as to encourage people to risk eviction in this rough housing market.
Sorry but we can't help but repeat ourselves in hopes that real people don't believe this hype:
PLAYING POLITICS WITH RENT MONEY IS STUPID & DANGEROUS!!!
Are we supporting landlords in this fight??? Nope. We absolutely agree there are real improvements needed for these residents and we don't want anybody living in squalor.
Nevertheless . . . We're merely warning that protest groups aren't really equipped to deal with any collateral damage they might inflict and putting faith in activists funded by dark money before election season is really a long-shot for anybody who needs a place to crash after the dust settles.
And so . . . Here's more followup for news junkies looking for another angle on this story . . .
More than 100 people met downtown to picket and demonstrate to show that they won't pay until demands are met from landlords.
On Friday, he came home to a notice taped on his door from Sentinel management stating he owed a $50 late rent fee.
“On the form, I wrote, ‘not one cent,’ I will not pay one cent because of the conditions I live in, I will not pay,” he said.
He then burned the notice along with KC Tenant's members.
Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com links . . .
Kansas City-area tenant unions strike as they burn late rent fee notices, withhold $60K in rent
Rent is due but some tenants in the Kansas City metro aren't paying. Tenants of Quality Hill Towers Tenant Union and Independence Towers Tenant Union are withholding more than $60,000 in rent.
Tenants call rent strike a last resort at picket line outside area apartment building
The rent strike from Quality Hill Towers alone is costing the landlords roughly $38,000.
Developing . . .
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