Examples of 'rent strike' in a sentence

Meaning of "rent strike"

rent strike: A rent strike is a form of protest in which tenants collectively refuse to pay their rent in order to push for better housing conditions or rent prices. It is typically used as a tactic to negotiate with landlords or property management
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  • A form of social or economic protest in which tenants who rent housing, commercial space, or other property act as a group to refuse to pay their rent until the landlord makes demanded improvements to the property or to the terms of the rental contracts.

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The tenants were on rent strike at the time.
So there were plenty of grounds for a rent strike.
This rent strike situation is heading toward disaster.
This is not a little rent strike.
This rent strike situationis heading toward disaster.
It tried to organise a national rent strike.
A rent strike is a method of protest commonly employed against large landlords.
Think of the classic rent strike.
But the rent strike continued in many parts of the city.
For your helpin ending the rent strike.
Typically a rent strike would be followed by eviction by the police and the bailiffs.
Your son ought to run the rent strike meeting.
Settle your rent strike and end your proceedings with Esther James.
Explore the possibility of other participants in the rent strike.
For your helpin ending the rent strike and making sure thatthis does not go to court.

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Cousin Larry calls a rent strike.
Tenant farmers had started a rent strike against absentee landlords who cared little about their estates.
The Communist Party asked Sommerfield to write a manual about how to organise a rent strike.
I am working on a rent strike in Harlem.
After considerable discussion, they agreed to a rent strike.
In June and July meetings of the rent strike committee attracted large numbers of women.
Even if these estimates are a bit exaggerated, clearly, this was a massive rent strike.
Later, she led a rent strike against her building 's management company over unlivable conditions.
The criminalisation of squats, resistance against evictions and rent strike have to be stopped.
They are determined to make this rent strike a success, which I certainly applaud them for.
So I talked to my roommates and my neighbors, and we organized a rent strike.
For your helpin ending the rent strike In exchange for what?
You are here to tell me that if I raise the rent, you will have a rent strike.
Your son ought to run the rent strike meeting . Kid buried me.
And making sure thatthis doesn't go to court. For your helpin ending the rent strike.
I am working on a rent strike in Harlem . Oh.
Which I certainly applaud them for. They're determined to make this rent strike a success.
A novel which deals with the rent strike is José Mancisidor La ciudad roja, Novela proletaria.
Thank you . Your son ought to run the rent strike meeting.
A rent strike in this building?
Yeah, but hurry because I got to be at this rent strike rally in an hour.
Rent strike in Ng'ambo.
In Los Angeles, tenants staged a rent strike in protest.
And I brought someoneto help persuade you . I want toend this rent strike.
Rent hike, rent strike.
In 1884 Fraser attempted to evict a family at Garafad in Staffin during a rent strike.
Cousin Larry calls a rent strike . Well, I would call it a rent strike.
Well, I would call it a rent strike.
A pro bono. I'm working on a rent strike in Harlem.
A pro-bono. I'm working on a rent strike in Harlem.

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