For many renters, rent debt can perpetuate a cycle of housing insecurity and rejected apartment applications as interest piles up. To address it, Rachel Cohen Booth writes, a group of renters are pioneering a new strategy: a rent debt strike.
Such a strike has been tested elsewhere, to great success — in 2015, a student debt strike by attendees of a for-profit college chain helped change the conversation around student loan forgiveness. Rachel explains why renters like Tay’Laur and Tai’Leah Paige, with help from the Debt Collective, hope they can achieve something similar now.
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—Angela Chen, senior politics, policy, and ideas editor
