When Tara Raghuveer founded KC Tenants in 2019, she saw a big problem for working class renters in Kansas City.
Rents were rising, even as renters were subject to poor living conditions, evictions and predatory landlords. Raghuveer saw that the only way to fix it was organizing tenants to take back their power.
“There’s a voice that’s missing from the conversation, and that voice is people who are people who are actually impacted,” she told KCUR’s Up To Date in 2019. “My theory of change is the people who are closest to the problem are closest to the solutions.”…