After two weeks with limited heat, some Logan Square tenants refuse to pay full rent

Tenant Becca Smith, 26, was among those protesting outside her Logan Square apartment building Thursday. About two dozen renters say they’re withholding part of their rent for January to protest the lack of heat in their building for two weeks in December. (Pat Nabong/Sun-Times)

Some two dozen tenants who say they were left shivering inside their chilly Logan Square apartments for two weeks in December are withholding half a month’s rent in protest.

The renters say they shouldn’t have to pay rent for the two weeks their apartments weren’t “habitable.”