List of rent strikes

The following is a list of specific rent strikes—tenants refusing to pay some or all of their rent.

Definition

A rent strike is a collective direct action where tenants refuse to pay rent to landlords as a leverage of bargining power.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Date	Strike	Place	Country
1839–1845	Anti-Rent War	Upstate, New York State	United States
1904	1904 New York City rent strike	New York City	United States
1907	Broom strike of 1907	Buenos Aires	Argentina
1907–1908	1907 New York City rent strike	New York City	United States
1915	1915 Glasgow rent strikes	Glasgow	Scotland
1918–1920	1918–1920 New York City rent strikes	New York City	United States
1920-1921	1920-1921 Chicago rent strikes	Chicago	United States
1925	1925 Tenant Movement	Panama City and Colón	Panama
1931	1931 Barcelona rent strike	Barcelona	Spain
1965–1968	Tulare labor camps rent strike	Tulare County, California	United States
1966	1966 West Side Rent Strike^[5]	West Side, Chicago	United States
1970–1973	1970–1973 Republic of Ireland rent strikes	nationwide	Republic of Ireland
1971	Anti-internment rent and rates strike^[6]	nationwide	Northern Ireland
1972–1973	Kirkby Rent Strike	Kirkby	England
2024–	2024 Kansas City metropolitan area rent strike	Kansas City metropolitan area	United States

^ Guzmán, Jordi G.; Ill-Raga, Marta (4 May 2022). "Rent Strikes: Revolutions at Point Zero". Socialism and Democracy. 36 (1–2): 193–215. doi:10.1080/08854300.2022.2170681. hdl:1854/LU-01J1YJYV7CN42NAAV5TSTPK6D1. ISSN 0885-4300.
^ Che, Chara (25 July 2023). "Hundreds of tenants have gone on rent strike in Toronto. Is that even legal?". National Post. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
^ Vallis, Mary (5 June 2023). "What are rent strikes — and do they work?". CBC News. Retrieved 26 November 2024.
^ Moorhouse, Bert; Wilson, Mary; Chamberlain, Chris (17 March 1972). "Rent Strikes - Direct Action and the Working Class". Socialist Register. 9: 133–156.
^ Cornfield, Gil; Heaps, Melody; Hill, Norman (2018-01-15). "The Chicago Freedom Movement's quest for economic justice". The Chicago Reporter. Retrieved 2024-10-25.
^ Gilbert, Rosa (2017). "No Rent, No Rates: Civil Disobedience Against Internment in Northern Ireland, 1971-1974". Studi irlandesi. A Journal of Irish Studies. 7 (7): 19–43. doi:10.13128/SIJIS-2239-3978-20749. ISSN 2239-3978.