Tenants often have little leverage to negotiate with their landlords, unlike workers who can collectively bargain or threaten to quit.
Landlords use LLCs to hide their identities and avoid accountability, making it difficult for tenants to negotiate or push back.
Many landlords leave apartments vacant to artificially restrict supply and drive up rents.
Landlords collude through platforms like RealPage to fix rent prices and increase them together.
Tenants who fight back risk retaliation like eviction or being blacklisted.
Organizing with other tenants and getting pro bono legal help can help push back against unfair rent increases.
Proposed bills like the LLC Transparency Act and Good Cause Eviction could increase tenant protections and leverage.
Tenant movements are mobilizing for change and more affordable housing.
Even tenants with more stability and resources struggle to negotiate with anonymous landlords.
The narrator’s landlord only contacted them after they moved out to withhold part of their security deposit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq59qGkwXlE
Tenants often have little leverage to negotiate with their landlords, unlike workers who can collectively bargain or threaten to quit.
Landlords use LLCs to hide their identities and avoid accountability, making it difficult for tenants to negotiate or push back.
Many landlords leave apartments vacant to artificially restrict supply and drive up rents.
Landlords collude through platforms like RealPage to fix rent prices and increase them together.
Tenants who fight back risk retaliation like eviction or being blacklisted.
Organizing with other tenants and getting pro bono legal help can help push back against unfair rent increases.
Proposed bills like the LLC Transparency Act and Good Cause Eviction could increase tenant protections and leverage.
Tenant movements are mobilizing for change and more affordable housing.
Even tenants with more stability and resources struggle to negotiate with anonymous landlords.
The narrator’s landlord only contacted them after they moved out to withhold part of their security deposit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq59qGkwXlE