2024 Kansas City metropolitan area rent strike

2024 Kansas City metropolitan area rent strike
Date	October 1, 2024 – present[1][2]
Location	Kansas City metropolitan area, Missouri Kansas City, Missouri Independence, Missouri
Caused by	Poor living conditions Failure from the landlords to provide maintenance
Goals	Collectively bargained leases National rent caps New ownership for the complexes
Methods	Rent strike Picketing[3]
Resulted in	Ongoing
Parties
Kansas City Tenants Union[2] Quality Hill Towers Tenant Union Independence Towers Tenant Union Federal Housing Finance Agency[2] Freddie Mac Fannie Mae Sentinel Real Estate Corporation Trigild, Inc.

Since October 1, 2024, members of the Kansas City Tenants Union in the cities of Kansas City, Missouri and Independence, Missouri began a rent strike after voted approval and failed negotiations with their landlords and Fannie Mae. Tenants of Independence Towers and Quality Hill Towers, two apartment complexes involved with the dispute, have complained about poor living conditions, with maintenance reports going unadressed. This is 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 are federal rent regulation, collectively bargained leases, and new ownership for the complexes. One of the landlords has labeled the claims made against them as false and stated that they were working with the tenants union and were starting maintenance; they said that the strike prevented them from doing so. Tenants have claimed that they had seen no significant improvements and said the landlord refused to meet with them to discuss the issue.