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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 1918-20 New York City Rent strikes were some of the most significant tenant mobilizations against landlords in NYC history. As a result of a World War 1 housing shortage, a coal shortage during a brutal winter, frequent raising of rents and landlord property speculation; Waves of rent strikes occurred across the entire city among poor and ...
Williamsburg Rent Strike, Published September 14, 1919. Following a housing and coal shortage caused by the mobilization for World War I, a wave of rent strikes occurred across all of New York City and Jersey City from 1918 to 1920. While it is unclear exactly how many tenants were involved, at least tens of thousands and likely hundreds of ...
1918-20 New York City rent strikes: 1918-20 New York City: 100,000 [12] ... 1904 New York City Rent Strike: 1904 New York City: 1,000s 2010 Georgia prison strike: 2010
1920s: The Spanish Flu. In the fall of 1918, a mutated version of the virus that claimed its first victims in the spring made its way around the world, causing the death rate to escalate quickly ...
1915 Glasgow rent strikes; 1925 Tenant Movement; 1931 Barcelona rent strike; 2024 Kansas City metropolitan area rent strike; A. ... 1918–1920 New York City rent ...
San Francisco received national praise for its early, proactive response to the Spanish flu pandemic in the fall of 1918. As another pandemic grips the city a century later, San Francisco's past ...
The Anti-Rent War (also known as the Helderberg War) was a tenants' revolt in upstate New York between 1839 and 1845. The Anti-Renters declared their independence from the manor system run by patroons , resisting tax collectors and successfully demanding land reform.