Raytown Landlord Launches Evictions Amid Activist Rent Strike

Activists might be helping locals flirt with homelessness amid another fight over living conditions. 

However . . . In this instance it might be an upgrade given some pretty horrific images and testimony.

Credit where it's due . . . Check follow-up reporting . . .  

"Bowen Tower in Raytown, Missouri, where 92 families, most of them Black, elderly, and disabled, are waging the first rent strike in the city’s history. Where a California-based real estate investor has turned a apartment building into a pressure cooker of neglect, extraction, and retaliation. Where tenants have said enough.

"And where, as of Wednesday, October 22nd, that landlord escalated to open warfare: filing 11 new evictions in a single day against striking tenants, adding to 15 evictions already in motion. Twenty-six families now face homelessness for the crime of demanding heat in winter, water that doesn’t flood their homes, and rent they can afford."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

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