Forest Park SouthEast has an excellent guide to organizing tenant unions and rent strikes.
https://www.forestparksoutheast.com/st-louis-renter-rights-organizing-toolkit/
In their list of resources, they did forget Open Corporates. Many landlords are LLC or other orgs and go to great lengths to disguise their holdings.
OpenCorporates :: The Open Database Of The Corporate World
Wikipedia has a good history:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_strike
One thing you can always do is write your Mayor and local elected officials (council or alderpersons) and ask them to set up an escrow account through the courts for tenants and tenant unions to deposit withheld rent.
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