From Montana to Connecticut, from Colorado Springs to Chicago, the affordable housing crisis has mobilized working class tenants to reshape the political landscape of their cities to prioritize the wellbeing of their renting neighbors. Tenant unions from all across the country converged in Kansas City Missouri in a shared effort strengthen a political movement that seeks to ensure everyone in the United States has access to safe and truly affordable housing.

This highlight reel showcases the founding convention of the Tenant Union Federation as they converged in Kansas City to share their experiences in organizing, establish their federation’s constitution and launch a coordinated rent strike across multiple states to target a shared corporate landlord, the first of its kind.