Author: Robert M. Fogelson
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2013-10-15
Total Pages: 523
ISBN-13: 0300205589
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia. Subcommittee on Labor, Social Services, and the International Community
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Published: 1973
Total Pages: 132
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: David Wayne Brown
Publisher: NOLO
Published: 1996-02
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9780873373197
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Every California landlord and property manager should have this book--which covers everything they need to know about deposits, leases and rental agreements, inspections, habitability, discrimination, and rent control. It provides 25 tear-out forms and agreements, including rental applications, leases and rental agreements, 3-day and 30-day notices, sample letters, and more.
Author: Margery Austin Turner
Publisher: The Urban Insitute
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9780877664437
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: William Dennis Keating
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 276
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Rent control, the governmental regulation of the level of payment and tenure rights for rental housing, occupies a small but unique niche within the broad domain of public regulation of markets. The price of housing cannot be regulated by establishing a single price for a given level of quality, as other commodities such as electricity and sugar have been regulated at various times. Rent regulation requires that a price level be established for each individual housing unit, which in turn implies a level of complexity in structure and oversight that is unequaled. Housing provides a sense of security, defines our financial and emotional well-being, and influences our self-definition. Not surprisingly, attempts to regulate its price arouse intense controversy. Residential rent control is praised as a guarantor of affordable housing, excoriated as an indefensible distortion of the market, and both admired and feared as an attempt to transform the very meaning of housing access and ownership. This book provides a thorough assessment of the evolution of rent regulation in North American cities. Contributors sketch rent control's origins, legal status, economic impacts, political dynamics, and social meaning. Case studies of rent regulation in specific North American cities from New York and Washington, DC, to Berkeley and Toronto are also presented. This is an important primer for students, advocates, and practitioners of housing policy and provides essential insights on the intersection of government and markets.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency
Publisher:
Published: 1952
Total Pages: 348
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. House. Banking and Currency Committee
Publisher:
Published: 1953
Total Pages: 348
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency
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Published: 1947
Total Pages: 558
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Considers legislation to revise or eliminate the Federal rent control program.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency
Publisher:
Published: 1949
Total Pages: 830
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Considers legislation to extend and strengthen the rent control provisions of the Housing and Rent Act of 1947.