It lasted three years and successfully stopped the proposed rent increase, and led to the construction of new houses to replace the tin huts.

[1][2] The housing was then leased to a Growers Association in 1948 for $1[b] for the whole camp, who then charged rents as high as $5[c] a week for each shelter for two years.

[4][5] With its end brought an upswing in permanent residents, and more diverse population of families, while it had previously consisted of largely of single men through the program.

[6] The rent strike was not only the result of the organizing of Gilbert Padilla and Jim Drake, but also crucially supported by the alliance formed between the NFWA and SNCC in January 1965.

[7]: 20–29 Cancelling the rent increase was not the only goal of the strikers, improving the conditions of the housing was a principal crucial demand by them.

"Gary Bellow, a lawyer and activist who often represented farm workers from the NFWA, in a 1999 oral history interview described their experience visiting the labor camps: "You could always tell a kid that grew up in Linnell/Woodville because they had these open gas heaters and every kid that ever grew up in Linnell/Woodville had scars on their arms from falling against these open gas heaters.

[6]The labor camps also lacked sidewalks, causing deep mud during rainfall, making it difficult to access the fire hydrants for water.

[14] Reverend Jim Drake would discover during organizing that the camp's were only built to last ten years and that they had been condemned by the Tulare County Health and Building Departments.

[6] The Tulare Housing Authority responded to residents, claiming that the rent raises were needed to fix the camps.

They helped further publicize the strike through entering an agreement with the University of California Santa Cruz to provide students for editing of the newspaper Tenant News.

[9]The marchers, consisting of tenants and supporters, were headed towards the regularly scheduled meeting place of the Tulare County Housing Authority.

[9] Then the march continued to the Visalia Presbyterian Church, where the workers held a rally where Labor Journalist Paul Jacobs spoke in support of the rent strike, and a petition was signed by the strikers.

"[6] In a letter written by Gilbert Padilla -intended as template of the basic events for those to send complaints to California Gov Edmund G. Brown- he would criticize the Linnell Farm Labor camp manager claiming:[14] "[the camp manager had] handed out [pamphets] while working for the Authority, which attack the United Nations, the President of the United States, the National Council of Churches, and 'Martin Luther King and His Civil Rights Urinators.'

"On August 14, 1965, it was announced that the Assembly Industrial Relations Committee would investigate the rent strikes at the farm labor camps.

Chairman, Mervyn M. Dymally said of the issue:[20] "The fact that this county housing authority raised rents for these tin shack homes of the poorest people in our abundantly rich San Joaquin Valley, in the face of a reserve fund surplus of more than $130,000, and refuses to discuss or negotiate the issues involved with the tenants raises a reaI question about local housing authority operations"On August 19, the Tulare County Farmers Association called for TCHA to take immediate steps to replace the metal hut housing with more habitable conditions.

That same month, the County Health and Building inspectors investigated the camps and determined they were not fit for human habitation, publicly condemning the shacks, and the operation to be illegal.

Ferris Sherman and Earl Rouse, heads of the Housing Authority still attempted to evict the protestors through the courts.

Additionally the County Board of Supervisors specifically set the six-month deadline for a plan or start on building better housing, with criminal negligence charges also being considered.

[6] Following concerns of the condemned huts being torn down, leaving the tenants nowhere to live, the board members expanded the grace period three more months from when it was set to expire on July 1, 1967.

Ernesto Loredo, leader for the last two years of the rent strike, noted:[16] "They had us beaten several times, but because the people were tough we were able to force the hand of the Authority.

[6][26] The organizing established from the strike remained and tenants continued to challenge the housing authority when rent raises and fees they felt were unjust were attempted, including in 1971, 1974 and 1985.

[6] The strike played an important role in catalyzing farm worker families within the camps becoming a core of NFWA support and involvement.

[5] Gary Bellow, a lawyer who provided legal advice with the rent strike case, noted:[12] "...many of them joined the Union after that because they liked the experience of collective action, they saw what it could do with each other.

[27][28][29] However, since 2023, Tulare County Housing Authority (TCHA) staff have been accused of threatening residents on housing rental assistance with ICE, questioning the immigration documents of families within the camps and subsequently sending 17 families 3 day eviction notices, $600 fees, alongside court and attorney costs for noncompliance in the Linnell Labor Camp.

[30] This was due to a federal amendment to the Housing Act of 1949 passed in 2018 that opened the camps for use by agribusiness growers to use for their H-2A workers.

[30] H-2A visa holders are considered especially vulnerable, dependent entirely on employment to stay inside the country and can be easily fired for protesting unfair conditions.

[30][31] In March 2023, two staff of the TCHA were removed due to the public outrage at the allegations of discrimination and intimidation against farm workers in the camps.