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After years of rising rents, a group of Kansas City, Missouri, renters came together in 2019 to form KC Tenants, armed with an annual budget of $30,000 and demands for a bill of rights to protect renters from rising prices, unjust evictions, and landlord abuse
Instead of focusing mainly on ways to help low- and middle-class people buy affordable housing, grant makers are paying for community organizing and advocacy designed to protect renters.
As nonprofit workers unionize, negotiations can make things awkward in mission-based workplaces.
Organizers and activists hope the pandemic has changed how America thinks of housing for good.