UID:
almahu_9949494486102882
Format:
1 online resource :
,
illustrations (black and white)
ISBN:
9780300205589 (ebook) :
Content:
Written by one of the country's foremost urban historians, this book tells the fascinating but little-known story of the battles between landlords and tenants in the nation's largest city from 1917 through 1929. These conflicts were triggered by the post-war housing shortage, which prompted landlords to raise rents, drove tenants to go on rent strikes, and spurred the state legislature, a conservative body dominated by upstate Republicans, to impose rent control in New York, a radical and unprecedented step that transformed landlord-tenant relations.
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780300191721
Language:
English
URL:
Yale scholarship online
