The Tenants Movement

Author : Quintin Bradley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317962649

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The Tenants' Movement is both a history of tenant organization and mobilization, and a guide to understanding how the struggles of tenant organizers have come to shape housing policy today. Charting the history of tenant mobilization, and the rise of consumer movements in housing, it is one of the first cross-cultural, historical analyses of tenants’ organizations’ roles in housing policy. The Tenants' Movement shows both the past and future of tenant mobilization. The book’s approach applies social movement theory to housing studies, and bridges gaps between research in urban sociology, urban studies, and the built environment, and provides a challenging study of the ability of contemporary social movements, community campaigns and urban struggles to shape the debate around public services and engage with the unfinished project of welfare reform.

Author : Quintin Bradley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317962656

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The Tenants' Movement is both a history of tenant organization and mobilization, and a guide to understanding how the struggles of tenant organizers have come to shape housing policy today. Charting the history of tenant mobilization, and the rise of consumer movements in housing, it is one of the first cross-cultural, historical analyses of tenants’ organizations’ roles in housing policy. The Tenants' Movement shows both the past and future of tenant mobilization. The book’s approach applies social movement theory to housing studies, and bridges gaps between research in urban sociology, urban studies, and the built environment, and provides a challenging study of the ability of contemporary social movements, community campaigns and urban struggles to shape the debate around public services and engage with the unfinished project of welfare reform.

Author : Ronald Lawson,Mark D. Naison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015014773397

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The Tenant Movement in New York City, 1904-1984 by Ronald Lawson,Mark D. Naison Pdf

Author : Roberta Gold
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252095986

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When Tenants Claimed the City by Roberta Gold Pdf

In postwar America, not everyone wanted to move out of the city and into the suburbs. For decades before World War II, New York's tenants had organized to secure renters' rights. After the war, tenant activists raised the stakes by challenging the newly-dominant ideal of homeownership in racially segregated suburbs. They insisted that renters as well as owners had rights to stable, well-maintained homes, and they proposed that racially diverse urban communities held a right to remain in place--a right that outweighed owners' rights to raise rents, redevelop properties, or exclude tenants of color. Further, the activists asserted that women could participate fully in the political arenas where these matters were decided. Grounded in archival research and oral history, When Tenants Claimed the City: The Struggle for Citizenship in New York City Housing shows that New York City's tenant movement made a significant claim to citizenship rights that came to accrue, both ideologically and legally, to homeownership in postwar America. Roberta Gold emphasizes the centrality of housing to the racial and class reorganization of the city after the war; the prominent role of women within the tenant movement; and their fostering of a concept of "community rights" grounded in their experience of living together in heterogeneous urban neighborhoods.

Author : Allan David Heskin
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015004933803

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Tenants and the American Dream by Allan David Heskin Pdf

Author : Charles W. McCurdy
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003-06-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780807860878

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The Anti-Rent Era in New York Law and Politics, 1839-1865 by Charles W. McCurdy Pdf

A compelling blend of legal and political history, this book chronicles the largest tenant rebellion in U.S. history. From its beginning in the rural villages of eastern New York in 1839 until its collapse in 1865, the Anti-Rent movement impelled the state's governors, legislators, judges, and journalists, as well as delegates to New York's bellwether constitutional convention of 1846, to wrestle with two difficult problems of social policy. One was how to put down violent tenant resistance to the enforcement of landlord property and contract rights. The second was how to abolish the archaic form of land tenure at the root of the rent strike. Charles McCurdy considers the public debate on these questions from a fresh perspective. Instead of treating law and politics as dependent variables--as mirrors of social interests or accelerators of social change--he highlights the manifold ways in which law and politics shaped both the pattern of Anti-Rent violence and the drive for land reform. In the process, he provides a major reinterpretation of the ideas and institutions that diminished the promise of American democracy in the supposed "golden age" of American law and politics.

Author : John Gilderbloom,Richard P. Appelbaum
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1987-12-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0877225389

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Rethinking Rental Housing by John Gilderbloom,Richard P. Appelbaum Pdf

In recent years, almost daily media attention has been focused on the plight of the homeless in cities across the United States. Drawing upon experiences in the U.S. and Europe, John Gilderbloom and Richard Appelbaum challenge conventional assumptions concerning the operation of housing markets and provide policy alternatives directed at the needs of low- and moderate-income families. Rethinking Rental Housing is a ground-breaking analysis that shows the value of applying a broad sociological approach to urban problems, one that takes into account the basic economic, social, and political dimensions of the urban housing crisis. Gilderbloom and Appelbaum predict that this crisis will worsen in the 1990s and argue that a "supply and demand" approach will not work in this case because housing markets are not competitive. They propose that the most effective approach to affordable housing is to provide non-market alternatives fashioned after European housing programs, particularly the Swedish model. An important feature of this book is the discussion of tenant movements that have tried to implement community values in opposition to values of development and landlord capital. One of the very few publications on rental housing, it is unique in applying a sociological framework to the study of this topic.

Author : Neil Gray
Publisher : Transforming Capitalism
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Housing
ISBN : 1786605759

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Rent and Its Discontents by Neil Gray Pdf

The 1915 Rent Strikes in Glasgow, along with similar campaigns across the UK, catalysed rent restrictions and eventually public housing as a right, with a legacy of progressive improvement in UK housing through the central decades of the 20th century. With the decimation of social housing and the resurgence of a profoundly exploitative private housing market, the contemporary political economy of housing now shares many distressing features with the situation one hundred years ago. Starting with a re-appraisal of the Rent Strikes, this book asks what housing campaigners can learn today from a proven organisational victory for the working class. A series of investigative accounts from scholar-activists and housing campaign groups across the UK charts the diverse aims, tactics and strategies of current urban resistance, seeking to make a vital contribution to the contemporary housing question in a time of crisis.

Author : Peter Marcuse,David Madden
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781784783563

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In Defense of Housing by Peter Marcuse,David Madden Pdf

In every major city in the world there is a housing crisis. How did this happen and what can we do about it? Everyone needs and deserves housing. But today our homes are being transformed into commodities, making the inequalities of the city ever more acute. Profit has become more important than social need. The poor are forced to pay more for worse housing. Communities are faced with the violence of displacement and gentrification. And the benefits of decent housing are only available for those who can afford it. In Defense of Housing is the definitive statement on this crisis from leading urban planner Peter Marcuse and sociologist David Madden. They look at the causes and consequences of the housing problem and detail the need for progressive alternatives. The housing crisis cannot be solved by minor policy shifts, they argue. Rather, the housing crisis has deep political and economic roots—and therefore requires a radical response.

Author : Alan Gilbert,Ann Varley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134936014

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Landlord and Tenant by Alan Gilbert,Ann Varley Pdf

This ground-breaking work employs survey data and in-depth interviews to compile a detailed picture of landlords and tenants in developing countries. Focusing on Mexico the authors examine the state's housing policy, with its clear bias towards increasing home ownership, and explores the possibilities of improving the quality and increasing the stock of rented accommodation in the developing World.

Author : Tony Crook,Peter A. Kemp
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781781954164

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Private Rental Housing by Tony Crook,Peter A. Kemp Pdf

A new focus on private renting has been brought into sharp relief by the global financial crisis, with its profound impact on mortgage finance, housing markets and government budgets. Written by specially commissioned international experts and s

Author : Ricardo Tranjan
Publisher : Between the Lines
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781771136235

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The Tenant Class by Ricardo Tranjan Pdf

In this trailblazing manifesto, political economist Ricardo Tranjan places tenants and landlords on either side of the class divide that splits North American society. What if there is no housing crisis, but instead a housing market working exactly as intended? What if rent hikes and eviction notices aren’t the work of the invisible hand of the market, but of a parasitic elite systematically funneling wealth away from working-class families? With clarity and precision, Tranjan breaks down pervasive myths about renters, mom-and-pop landlords, and housing affordability. In a society where home ownership is seen as the most important hallmark of a successful life, Tranjan refuses to absolve the landlords and governments that reap massive profits from the status quo. The tenant class must face powerful systems of disinformation and exploitation to secure decent homes and fair rent. Drawing upon a long, inspiring history of collective action in Canada, Tranjan argues that organized tenants have the power to fight back.

Author : Monica Quirico,Gianfranco Ragona
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030523718

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Frontier Socialism by Monica Quirico,Gianfranco Ragona Pdf

Considering the history of workers' and socialist movements in Europe, Frontier Socialism focuses on unconventional forms of anti-capitalist thought, particularly by examining several militant-intellectuals whose legacy is of particular interest for those aiming for a radical critique of capitalism. Following on the work of Michael Löwy, Quirico & Ragona identify relationships of “elective affinity” between figures who might appear different and dissimilar, at least at first glance: the German Anarchist Gustav Landauer, the Bolshevik Alexandra Kollontai, the German communist Paul Mattick, the Italian Socialist Raniero Panzieri, the Greek-born French euro-communist Nikos Poulantzas, the German-born Swedish Social Democrat Rudolf Meidner, and the French social scientist Alain Bihr as well as two historical struggle experiences, the Spanish Republic and the Italian revolutionary group “Lotta continua”. Frontier Socialism then analyzes these thinkers' and experiences’ respective paths to socialism based on and achieved through self-organization and self-government, not to build a new tradition but to suggest a path forward for both research and political activism.

Author : Robert M. Fogelson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300205589

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The Great Rent Wars by Robert M. Fogelson Pdf

Written by one of the country's foremost urban historians, "The Great Rent Wars" 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. "The Great Rent Wars" traces the tumultuous history of rent control in New York from its inception to its expiration as it unfolded in New York, Albany, and Washington, D.C. At the heart of this story are such memorable figures as Al Smith, Fiorello H. La Guardia, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, as well as a host of tenants, landlords, judges, and politicians who have long been forgotten. Fogelson also explores the heated debates over landlord-tenant law, housing policy, and other issues that are as controversial today as they were a century ago.

Author : Quintin Bradley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1063998208

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