Tenants organize rent strike at apartment building in Brightwood Park
As pop and hip-hop music vibrated down Peabody Street in the Brightwood Park neighborhood on a February afternoon, frustrated tenants silently marched down the front pathway to their apartment building, holding signs over their faces.
“No justice no rent.”
“We deserve to be safe.”
Some building staff uncomfortably looked away. Amid the thrumming lyrics, these signs did the loudest talking.
On the same day tenants planned to protest living conditions in their building, their management decided to stage a festive “resident appreciation day.”