In 2015 the Debt Collective launched the nation's first student debt strike against a predatory for-profit college. The Corinthian 15 were 15 debt strikers who started a national movement which eventually led to student debt abolition for everyone who owed money to Corinthian Colleges, to the tune of  $5.8 billion cancelled for 560,000 former students of Corinthian Colleges by 2022. Now, ten years later, we're back for more.

The EQR 10 are debt strikers who lost jobs during the pandemic, and fell behind on rent to Equity Residential, one of the nation's largest and most profitable corporate landlords. Today, they have been evicted for these debts, and are struggling to find housing, now carrying tens of thousands of dollars in back rent debt. In the meantime, Equity Residential continues to rake in cash and pay its CEO billions all while raising rents and using  profits to fight against tenants rights. 

Like the Corinthian 15 before them, the EQR 10 say, "Can't Pay Won't Pay!"

Together with EQR tenants and debtors, we're here to build the organized power we need to transform housing from an investment vehicle for the wealthy to what it should be: home for families, for communities, for everyone.