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The great rent wars : New York, 1917-1929 / Robert M. Fogelson.
LIBRA KFX2085.R3 F64 2013
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fogelson, Robert M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rent control--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
- Rent control.
- History.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 495 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]
- Contents:
- The post-war housing shortage
- Between a rock and a hard place
- A weighty decision
- The great rent strikes
- The mayor's committee on rent profiteering
- Enter the state legislature
- The April laws
- The September laws
- The battle in the state courts
- The fight in the federal courts
- A question of coverage
- A reasonable rent
- The four exceptions
- Landlords and tenants in New York and Albany
- The extension of rent control
- The expiration of rent control
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300191721
- 0300191723
- OCLC:
- 824608942
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