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These Tenants Are Going on Strike Against ‘Rent Debt’ A new kind of tenants union is ramping up the pressure on corporate landlords.

🔥Tenants are striking—not against rent, but against rent debt.

Former residents of corporate giant Equity Residential say bogus fees + predatory practices left them owing thousands they don’t actually owe.

These Tenants Are Going on Strike Against ‘Rent Debt’ A new kind of tenants union is ramping up the pressure on corporate landlords.

Organized with support from the @debtcollective.bsky.social, former tenants of Equity Residential, a real estate investment trust that owns more than 80,000 apartments nationwide, are refusing to pay rent debt they say stems from predatory practices.

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If you owe back rent debt to Equity Residential or *any* corporate landlord in the country, you can now go to backrentdebt.org and begin a debt-dispute process. We just created a new, free, first-of-its-kind tool to help tenants and debtors fight back.

If you owe back rent debt to Equity Residential or *any* corporate landlord in the country, you can now go to backrentdebt.org and begin a debt-dispute process.

We just created a new, free, first-of-its-kind tool to help tenants and debtors fight back.

Just Now: A group former tenants who all owe crushing amounts of rent debt —from $200 to over $50,000—just announced themselves on debt-strike.

They will refuse to pay their unjust debts to Equity Residential, the 5th largest corporate landlord in the United States.

Today, we're launching the first ever rental debt strike in U.S. history against Equity Residential, the 5th largest corporate landlord in the nation.

9 brave folks —the EQR 9— will collectively refuse to pay their rental debt.

Equity Residential (EQR) has an annual income of ~$2 billion.

EQUITY RESIDENTIAL DEBTORS & TENANTS UNITED

3. (This one is really important) Current and former tenants of Equity Residential (EQR)? Why Equity Residential?

Because we are launching a debt-strike against EQR.

Live in an Equity Residential (EQR) building?

Join us by going to eqrdtu.org for a novel fight.

Who should use this tool?

1. Anyone who owes rent debt to their current or former landlord.

2. Tenants and former tenants of other landlords, particularly corporate landlords, who want a written account of their practices to help you fight back.

If you have rent debt, you can use the tool to generate letters you can send to various actors as part of your debt dispute process. If thousands of us dispute our debts—and inform regulators of these disputes—it will drastically raise the cost of collecting these debts.

We just built a NEW tech tool that *any current or former tenant* in the entire country can use for free — it will generate a legal letter for you that reports to collections agencies, credit bureaus and regulatory agencies.

Go to reportmylandlord.org to fight back.

Tomorrow activists are launching a novel rent debt strike against one of the largest corporate landlords in the country.

I report on their strategy and national goals

Keep your eye on this. A decade ago, Debt Collective launched a student debt strike. Mainstream media scoffed and laughed. Then billions got canceled. We’re repeating that playbook with back rent debt: strike, shift moral culpability, target bad actors, change consumer protection law for the better.

Debt Strike! Abolish Corporate Landlords & Build Tenant Power The rent is too damn high — and corporate landlords are to blame! Join the Debt Collective as we make a huge announcement: we’re launching a national Back-Rent Debt Strike against the fifth largest…

Join us tomorrow to hear from strikers.
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Tenants say it’s time for landlords to cancel back rent debt Tenants are going on strike against their landlords.

"The rental debt strike borrows from the successful student debt playbook: small groups generating national media attention, moral framing that shifts blame from individuals to institutions, and strategic targeting of powerful actors’ alleged misconduct."
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New: We're sparking a coordinated form of economic resistance that has never been done in the housing space.

We're organizing a debt-strike.

Rental debtors around the country will refuse to pay their back-rent debt to a giant corporate landlord.

And we're going to win.

Millions Could Lose Housing Aid Under Trump Plan Drafts of unpublished rules obtained by ProPublica detail plans that would open the door to full-time work requirements, two-year limits on living in federally supported housing and stripping aid from...

"Drafts of unpublished rules obtained by ProPublica detail plans that would open the door to full-time work requirements, two-year limits on living in federally supported housing and stripping aid from families if one household member is in the country illegally."
www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Next Wednesday, we're announcing something we think could really shift the landscape for tenant protections.

Join us — and Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib — as we roll out a new legal-tech tool and novel strike.

RSVP: BIT.LY/DEBTSTRIKE2025

Debt Strike! Abolish Corporate Landlords & Build Tenant Power The rent is too damn high — and corporate landlords are to blame! Join the Debt Collective as we make a huge announcement: we’re launching a national Back-Rent Debt Strike against the fifth largest…

On Oct 1, @debtcollective.bsky.social is taking on one of the country's biggest landlords by launching:

⚡ Debt Strike: Brave individuals who owe back-rent will collectively refuse to pay.

⚡ A new tool for renters to fight debt + junk fees

Debtors are organizing. RSVP: bit.ly/DebtStrike2025

Speculative real estate investment is one of the main ways billionaires get richer. It's important to understand that housing — and from the working class' perspective, paying rising rent — is very much essential how the rich are making money off of the 99%.

Debt Strike! Abolish Corporate Landlords & Build Tenant Power The rent is too damn high — and corporate landlords are to blame! Join the Debt Collective as we make a huge announcement: we’re launching a national Back-Rent Debt Strike against the fifth largest…

Tenants around the nation are being deceived, taken advantage of and abused by their giant, profit-driven corporate landlords.

We've had enough.

Join us on October 1st as we announce a new legal-tech tool that could shift tenant power for the better.
debtcollective.org/event/debt-s...

If Democrats want to take economic populism seriously, they would be talking about broad-scale medical debt relief, wide-spread student debt relief, and rent-control + tenant protections. People's largest bill every month is usually rent. If not rent, probably a debt payment.

Wealth being concentrated in the hands of a few is incompatible with democracy. It is good for democracy if we take the masses amounts of wealth that billionaires have and redistribute it among the masses of people — people who are trying to feed, house and clothe their families.

There is a lot happening today — from free speech censorship to racist violence to deportations.

To defeat fascism, we will need all hands on deck.

Google "general strike 2028" and start reading. Share it with your friends. Share it with your coworkers.

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Debt Strike! Abolish Corporate Landlords & Build Tenant Power The rent is too damn high — and corporate landlords are to blame! Join the Debt Collective as we make a huge announcement: we’re launching a national Back-Rent Debt Strike against the fifth largest…

We launched the first student debt strike in U.S. history 10 years ago.

Now, we're launching another bold, historic action uniting tenants and evicted debtors for the first time ever.

Join us on October 1 to hear about it first:
debtcollective.org/event/debt-s...

These LA tenants saw some utility fees double. So they went on strike The controversial billing system their landlord uses was banned in West Hollywood three years ago.

Important tenant strike+victory here - solidarity with all renters facing off against corporate landlords!

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