Solidarity with Kansas City Tenants Union and the tenants at Bowen Tower Tenant Union in Raytown, Missouri, on their historic rent strike! Tenants at Bowen Tower are currently withholding over $34,000 in rent for the month of October. The tenants are fighting for an end to dismal living conditions, and the criminal refusal by their multi-state corporate landlord, Alta/CGHS, to address a myriad of problems which include flooding, broken plumbing, broken heating and air conditioning, and bed bug infestations. Despite failing to fix these issues, the landlord is RAISING the rent, with one tenant reporting a rent increase of 40 percent! In response to their rent strike, the tenants have been met with outrageous $160 late fees, threats of eviction, and intimidation from the police. Alta/CGHS real estate is a wealthy corporation that owns well over 15,000 properties. Its main owners — Charles Hill, Howard Song, and Greg Salyers — have been involved in billions of real estate acquisitions in their careers. The company boasts “unique principal strategies in order to maximize value … to ensure optimal return on investment”. These corporate landlords make their profits from exploiting working-class and poor renters. The “optimal return on investment” for these multimillionaires is only possible because of the obscene rents they charge us working people and by spending as little as possible on maintaining the homes we live in. Earlier this year, tenants at Independence Towers near Kansas City won a major victory through an 8-month rent strike, which saw them withhold $290,000 in rent and win recognition of their tenants union! Tenants got to keep their rent and utility rates at the same level and do not have to pay a dime in back pay.  Solidarity with the rally and march TONIGHT that the tenants are itemizing organizing to extend this historic rent strike and to fight against evictions! @KCTenants

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ignore this sourpuss, I'm going on record as a DSA chapter leader that I give formal permission to @pslnational to ride these coattails as much as they want and I hope all their candidates win.