As renters and mortgagors we call for a nationwide rent strike and the withholding of all mortgage payments while the Covid-19 pandemic requires people to isolate without security of income and housing.
312 people have signed this pledge
Rent Strike Pledge
I believe housing is a human right and that no one should be forced into financial hardship or go without necessities during the Covid-19 crisis. I pledge that I will stop paying rent for the duration of the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) crisis if the conditions that I agree to below are met. I support the demands of Rent Strike Aotearoa.
Our Demands
- An immediate amnesty from paying rent or mortgages, and a ban on all evictions throughout the COVID-19 pandemic (to be extended for a a period afterwards to help people recover financially and emotionally).
- Long term rent caps to enable people to recover financially and emotionally from COVID-19
- The government to buy unoccupied houses (ghost homes) and buildings on the private market for public housing for homeless peoples
- Remove all obligations to pay for the cost of temporary emergency housing, and reinstate this as a non-recoverable grant.
- No tenants will be left with debts or fines, retaliatory rent increases or retaliation from utility companies
- No bad references or rental histories for tenants who don’t or are unable to pay rent