Tenants Resort To Rent Strike To Get Necessary Services At Foreclosed 32-Unit Building That Lingers In Receivership Limbo Since 2008

In Chicago, Illinois, CBS-TV Channel 2 reports:

• Tenants staging a rent strike at a foreclosed, 32-unit apartment building in the Austin neighborhood have a new receiver – and they are finally beginning to see some repairs. But the leader of the strike said Thursday that it may be “months” before the tenants agree to pay rent again.
• "Before, people have started working, but they’ve stopped,” said Pamela Johnson, who lives in a second-floor apartment at 5159 W. West End Av.  “So until everything is done in this building, we can’t afford to pay rent.”
• The tenants say they consider the building, at 5141-59 W. West End Ave., a microcosm of what can go wrong when a bank forecloses on an apartment building. The building has been in receivership since 2008.

For more, see Rent-Striking Tenants In Troubled Building See Improvements Made.