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Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas spoke during a rally with KC Tenants for their Tenants Bill of Rights outside City Hall Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019.
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."
A tenants union, also known as a tenants association, is a group of tenants that collectively organize to improve the conditions of their housing and mutually educate about their rights as renters. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Groups may also lobby local officials to change housing policies or address homelessness.
In what it terms a "renters bill of rights," the Biden administration has unveiled a new plan of action to protect American renters from unfair housing practices and steep rent increases. See: 40...
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.
[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 ...
The Topeka City Council on Tuesday added teeth to the city’s rules regarding retaliatory evictions. Council members voted 9-0 to approve an ordinance allowing for landlords to be fined and/or ...
[7] State laws banning source of income discrimination vary widely with some including protections for tenants using section 8 housing vouchers and some not. [ 8 ] Advocates, such as the NAACP , argue renters have been unfairly denied usage of their housing voucher and that acceptance of housing vouchers leads to more diverse communities.