rent strikes
Collective payment refusals
A rent strike is a coordinated refusal by tenants to pay rent, typically to pressure landlords into making repairs, lowering rents, or addressing grievances.
Like labor strikes, rent strikes use collective action as leverage: The building's residents organized a rent strike after months without heat.
The tactic has a long history in tenant organizing movements.
Systematically putting in order
- grassrootsCommon people as political base
- campaignOrganized effort toward goal
- movementChange in position
- advocacyPleading for a cause
civil disobedience · coalition · mobilization · collective action · direct action · social change · awareness · unionize
Forced departure from rental
- landlordProperty owner renting out
- tenantOne who rents property
- leaseTemporary use contract
- arrearsOverdue financial obligations
housing crisis · security deposit · habitability · code violations · slumlord · gentrification · displacement · affordability
Jointly organized group
- unityWholeness through cohesion
- mutual aidCooperative community support
- tenant associationOrganized body of building residents
- allianceFormal union of parties
support · cooperation · fellowship · coalition · collaboration · neighbors · community · interdependence
Public display of opinion
- picket lineProtesting workers' boundary
- boycottOrganized economic protest
- resistanceCapacity to withstand force
- defianceOpen resistance to authority
rally · placards · chanting · occupation · sit-in · walkout · nonpayment · standoff
organizing
Systematically putting in order
- grassrootsCommon people as political base
- campaignOrganized effort toward goal
- movementChange in position
advocacy · civil disobedience · coalition · mobilization · collective action · direct action · social change · awareness · unionize · lobbying
eviction
Forced departure from rental
arrears · housing crisis · security deposit · habitability · code violations · slumlord · gentrification · displacement · affordability · substandard housing
collective
Jointly organized group
- unityWholeness through cohesion
- mutual aidCooperative community support
- tenant associationOrganized body of building residents
alliance · support · cooperation · fellowship · coalition · collaboration · neighbors · community · interdependence · strength in numbers
demonstration
Public display of opinion
- picket lineProtesting workers' boundary
- boycottOrganized economic protest
- resistanceCapacity to withstand force
defiance · rally · placards · chanting · occupation · sit-in · walkout · nonpayment · standoff · confrontation
- tenant concernsnoise complaints, building maintenance, repair requests, security deposits, lease terms
- tenementsapartment, railroad flat, railroad apartment, cold water flat, walk-ups
- peasant revoltuprising, uprisings, revolt, riot, riots
rent strikesrent payment
Tenant's regular housing cost
paying rent · timely payment · lease renewal · full payment · rent collection
rent strikeslockouts
Employer bars workforce entry
eviction · rent hikes · eviction proceedings · rent increases · lease termination
rent strikeslabor strikes
Workers collectively stopping work
work stoppages · general strikes · boycotts · sit-ins · picket lines
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