2024 Kansas City metropolitan area rent strike
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| Date | October 1, 2024 – June 4, 2025 | ||
| Location | Kansas City metropolitan area, Missouri
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From October 1, 2024 to June 4, 2025, members of the Kansas City Tenants Union went on rent strike. The union's members in Kansas City, Missouri and Independence, Missouri voted to take the action after failed negotiations with their landlords and Fannie Mae.
Tenants of Independence Towers and Quality Hill Towers—the two apartment complexes involved with the dispute— complained about poor living conditions, with maintenance reports going unaddressed. This was the first rent strike in the area since 1980, and the first ever targeting the federal government of the United States. The goals of the strikers were federal rent regulation, collectively bargained leases, and new ownership for the complexes.
Sentinel Real Estate Corporation labeled the tenants claims made against them as false and claimed that they were working with the tenants union and were starting maintenance; they said that the strike prevented them from doing so. Tenants claimed that they had seen no significant improvements and said the landlord refused to meet with them to discuss the issue.