How to Use rent strike in a Sentence

rent strike

noun
Definition of rent strikenext
  • And with the repairs still not made, the tenants began planning a rent strike.
    — Wilfred Chan, Curbed, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Javier and Aziz were nervous about joining the rent strike.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 25 May 2020
  • May given the sudden loss of income so many suffered and calls for a rent strike?
    — Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 16 May 2020
  • Stamp says the tenants will end their rent strike if the repairs are completed as promised.
    — Wilfred Chan, Curbed, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The rent strike idea has taken root in parts of North America and as far away as London.
    — Jim Salter, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2020
  • So what happens if more tenants are unable to pay their rent, or opt not to pay as part of a rent strike?
    — Karen Ho, Quartz, 30 Apr. 2020
  • The group stopped short of pushing for a rent strike, an idea other activists have floated.
    — Noah Buhayar, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2020
  • Both Jeffers and Thornton are participants in the largest rent strike in the United States in decades.
    — Kate Knibbs, Wired, 1 May 2020
  • After six months with no gas, Mr. Coker began knocking on his neighbors’ doors and asking them to join the rent strike.
    — Cezary Podkul, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2020
  • The night before the march, about a dozen members of the local CASA committee organizing the rent strike met to discuss the next day’s action.
    — Hau Chu, Washington Post, 15 July 2022
  • The night before the march, about a dozen members of the local CASA committee organizing the rent strike met to discuss the next day’s action.
    — Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2020
  • Do not follow the advice of Twitter communists and stage a rent strike with hammer and sickle in hand, tempting as that might be.
    — Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 26 Mar. 2020
  • About half the residents launched a rent strike in May, prompting Cook Properties to send out about 30 eviction notices.
    — CBS News, 26 July 2022
  • And so much as with student debt, millions of people in this country have effectively been forced into a rent strike already.
    — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 30 Apr. 2020
  • Gentrifying tenants join rent strike More than 25 tenants in the Western Avenue building are on rent strike.
    — Jack Ross, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Jackson encouraged the residents to organize a rent strike, an action allowed by the city.
    — Darcel Rockett, chicagotribune.com, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Tenants throughout California had been calling for a rent strike; the email instructed Saturn’s tenants to pay their rent on time.
    — Corey Robin, The New York Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2020
  • Now graduate students are pushing back, calling for a rent strike starting Thursday, April 1.
    — Joshua Emerson Smith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2021
  • Many like Diana Hou, who lost her job with a political campaign and has helped organized a rent strike in her Brooklyn building with her half-dozen roommates.
    — CBS News, 15 June 2020
  • Along with a growth in activity from tenants union and rent strikes, more and more local groups are succeeding in putting these issues on the political agenda.
    — Patrick Sisson, Curbed, 11 July 2018
  • The success of the Manchester rent strike – which saw students secure a 30% rent cut – is a clear example of how students are wielding their vital role in the economy to their advantage.
    — Daisy Schofield, refinery29.com, 9 Feb. 2021
  • With unemployment on the rise, many people across the nation have started to demand a rent strike, with movements growing in several states and across social media.
    — Fox News, 29 Mar. 2020
  • The building’s 25-plus residents, including about a dozen mariachi musicians, went on rent strike for nine months before settling with the landlord early this year.
    — Rob Kuznia, Washington Post, 2 June 2018
  • In May, tenant groups around the country coordinated a gigantic rent strike.
    — Matthew Desmond, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2020
  • May is shaping up as a clash between renters and landlords, as soaring unemployment could leave millions of tenants unable to pay, and some organizers of rent strikes urge even those with means to hold back.
    — Will Parker, WSJ, 1 May 2020
  • The pandemic has had effects well beyond just medical: It's forced small businesses to close, restaurants to lay off staff, and many Americans to consider a rent strike as a result of this lost income.
    — Kathryn Lindsay, refinery29.com, 27 Mar. 2020
  • Normally organizing large rent strikes would require years of careful organizing, but 24 percent of New Yorkers did not pay their rent in June and are already on a de facto rent strike.
    — Francisco Pérez, The New Republic, 31 July 2020
  • The growing calls for the rent strike come as a wave of labor unrest sweeps the state, with unions harnessing the momentum to organize protests, rally media coverage and pressure public officials such as Newsom.
    — Diya Chacko, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2020
  • Individual rent strikes have started to merge into a national movement.
    — Fox News, 27 Mar. 2020
  • The tenants had mobilized for better conditions, resisted evictions and participated in a rent strike.
    — Matthew Desmond, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2020

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