With soaring rent prices across the country and a dwindling housing supply, renters’ frustrations are turning into action.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — When housing insecurity is your reality, individual decisions come down to survival.
Just surviving was what LaTonya believed for most of her life was all that she could do in a system she saw no way of changing. The National Low Income Housing Coalition says that in no county, a person making federal, state or county minimum wage can afford a market-rate two-bedroom apartment. "We essentially work to make sure that everybody here in Kansas City has a safe, accessible, and affordable home," said Brandon Henderson.
A tenant union isn’t a union in the way a labor union is, with regulations and bargaining power, but it’s more of a collective of politically active renters who feel as though organization and activism is their best option to change the housing system in their favor.
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