Across the Kansas City metro, renters in apartment buildings are forming tenant unions to fight for better living conditions.

Bowen Tower residents are the latest tenants to call for change. Residents Shelley Bell and Tina McDonald said they've endured bad living conditions for years.

"We haven't had air, we haven't had elevators," McDonald said. "My apartment flooded from the floor up."

"I had so much water in my apartment little fish could have rolled through," Bell said.

Their calls for changes have gone unanswered. Their hope is that forming a tenants union is how their voices will be heard.

"All these years I've paid all this money for rent," McDonald said. "I deserve a decent place to live."

The Bowen Tower union's formation comes after the Independence Towers' union received $

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