‘One of the last places of safety’: US tenants are striking against their landlords over steep rent hikes

Rent strikes have become more common in recent years with all-time high increases and more corporate investing Nadia Langley had been organizing tenants in and around her south Minneapolis neighborhood since 2024, when, two months ago, the fledgling union saw a sudden explosion in interest. The jump was prompted not by a downturn in housing conditions or a rise in rents, but by the arrival of thousands of federal agents in the city as part of the Trump administration’s recent mass immigration...

By Carey L Biron