• PugJesus@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Sounds like it might be more like a coop. Alternatively, unionizing for the purpose of sharing information on the landlords’ practices, tenants rights, pooling money for legal help, etc.

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      1 year ago

      I would think that if all the tenants banded together, they could also negotiate on rent rises. I doubt they could prevent them, but they could certainly threaten to refuse to pay collectively if it was too high. Yes, that risks evicting the whole building, but that seems like a bad risk for the management company to take.

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        1 year ago

        Forming a “union” and not paying rent sounds like a sure fire way to get a whole building evicted.

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          I said refuse to pay the rent increase. Why would they evict the building over that? Because they don’t want any rent at all?

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            That’s simply not how this works, if you don’t pay your rent, you get evicted. And yes, a landlord likely would evict an entire building full of troublemakers.

            The idea is, if you don’t like the cost of something, you go somewhere else. Why would rent be any different?

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              And yes, a landlord likely would evict an entire building full of troublemakers.

              Do you have an example of a landlord evicting every tenant of a large apartment building because they banded together to oppose a rent increase?

              The idea is, if you don’t like the cost of something, you go somewhere else.

              Have you not been paying attention? There is nowhere else. Rent is ridiculously high everywhere. You free marketers are not grounded in reality.

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                Do you have an example of a landlord evicting every tenant of a large apartment building because they banded together to oppose a rent increase?

                Has anyone tried this before? this entire premise just isn’t realistic, the only leverage you have over a landlord, besides knowing the rules, is taking your business elsewhere, AKA a boycott.

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                  1 year ago

                  This is the whole point of unionizing the building. So yes it is realistic and yes it does give you leverage. Do you really think they would evict 50 apartments simultaneously?