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[7] [2] This is the first rent strike in Kansas City since 1980, and described by tenants as the first ever targeting the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the regulator of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. [ 8 ] [ 6 ] Tara Raghuveer, director of the union, stated they were targeting the American federal government as a way to criticize the systemic ...
Some tenants at Quality Hill Towers in Kansas City were hit with late fees after they began their rent strike Tuesday, protesting poor living conditions along with tenants from Independence Towers.
Two KC area tenant unions are on strike, withholding a combined $60,000 in rent over poor living conditions, while demanding rent caps, new ownership, and lease reforms.
KC Tenants was founded with an annual budget of $30,000, which has grown to almost $600,000 in June 2023. [1] The union has worked together with Mayor Quinton Lucas on housing policy, [3] notably passing a tenant's bill of rights in 2019 that included banning "discrimination against prospective tenants solely because of a prior arrest, conviction or eviction."
However, these lights sometimes do not detect smaller vehicles such as bikes or motorcycles. Traffic lights that do not service traffic due to non-detection may not meet the federal legal definition adopted by most states for a traffic control signal, which is any device "by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and permitted to proceed".
The couple says they have roughly $45,000 in assets, mostly in vehicles (Alex has five motorcycles), and $130,000 in total debt, over $100,000 of which is in student loans.
The Tenant Protection Act of 2019 caps annual rent increases at 5% plus regional inflation. [51] For example, had the bill been in effect in 2019, rent increases in Los Angeles would have been capped at 8.3%, and in San Francisco at 9%. [51] The increases are pegged to the rental rate as of March 15, 2019. [51]
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