The Great Rent Wars
New York, 1917-1929
1st Edition
Published on 15. October 2013
512 pages
978-0-300-20558-9 (ISBN)
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Prologue
- PART ONE: FROM RENT HIKES TO RENT STRIKES
- 1 The Postwar Housing Shortage
- 2 Between a Rock and a Hard Place
- 3 A Weighty Decision
- 4 The Great Rent Strikes
- PART TWO: THE ROAD TO RENT CONTROL
- 5 The Mayor's Committee on Rent Profiteering
- 6 Enter the State Legislature
- 7 The April Laws
- 8 The September Laws
- PART THREE: CONSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGES
- 9 The Battle in the State Courts
- 10 The Fight in the Federal Courts
- PART FOUR: RENT CONTROL WITHOUT A RENT COMMISSION
- 11 A Question of Coverage
- 12 A Reasonable Rent
- 13 The Four Exceptions
- PART FIVE: THE POLITICS OF RENT CONTROL
- 14 Landlords and Tenants in New York and Albany
- 15 The Extension of Rent Control
- 16 The Expiration of Rent Control
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
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