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The 1918–1920 New York City rent strikes were some of the most significant tenant mobilizations against landlords in New York City history. [2] A housing shortage caused by World War I had exacerbated tenant conditions, with the construction industry being redirected to support the war effort. In addition, newly available defense jobs ...
The rent strike of 1904 was the first mass rent strike in New York City's history [5] [1] and lasted nearly a month. [1] It was initially organized informally among Jewish immigrant women in the Lower East Side, [ 5 ] who canvassed the neighborhood for support and organized strategy meetings, pickets, and tenants unions . [ 3 ]
In response, tenants organized into tenants unions and started a mass rent strike in the Lower East Side, the first rent strike in New York City. The strike comprised 800 tenement houses wherein 2,000 tenants faced eviction. [1] Organizing was initially informal, relying on networking among the Jewish community, and primarily relying on women ...
A rent strike in Harlem, New York City, September 1919. A rent strike, sometimes known as a tenants strike or a renters strike, is a method of protest commonly employed against large landlords. In a rent strike, a group of tenants agree to collectively withhold paying some or all of their rent to their landlords en masse until
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0–9. Newsboys' strike of 1899; 1904 New York City rent strike; 1907 New York City rent strike; New York shirtwaist strike of 1909; 1912 New York City waiters' strike
The newest New York State anti-eviction laws brought much needed relief to tenants shell-shocked by financial hardships wrought by COVID, but some mom-and-pop landlords worry those measures may ...