Rent Strikes are Growing Across the Country
Posted
May 1, 2020
Views
167,604
Likes
3,804
Comments
1,837
Engagement
3.37%
May 1, 2020
167,604
3,804
1,837
3.37%
Every word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.
Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line
4:54Now PlayingEdwin Mantanico didn’t pay rent in April, and he doesn’t plan to pay it in May. The apartment he shares with his family in LA's Boyle Heights was expensive to begin with, and now, with him and his wife out of work due to the coronavirus pandemic, it’s unsustainable.
“I have to choose between paying rent or buying food for my family,” he said.
That stark choice is the way Mantanico’s organization, the LA Tenants Union, has framed recent protests targeting elected officials in California: Comida Sí, Renta No — yes to food, no to rent. It’s one of several groups around the country organizing rent strikes with the goal of forcing politicians to take drastic action to forestall the looming housing crisis.
VICE News spoke to striking tenants, politicians, and landlords about the growing movement to cancel the rent.
Subscribe to VICE News here
Check out VICE News for more
Follow VICE News here:
More videos from the VICE network
#VICENewsTonight
Sentinel Indexing in Progress
Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.
All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.
