The Right to Lease and Occupy a Home Equality and Public Provision in Housing Development
The rent-control statutes that tenants defended so tenaciously served to moderate prices that would otherwise be set higher by the law of supply and demand. But many tenants and housers understood rent control as a superficial fix. The underlying problem was scarcity of housing and a consequent land...
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Published in | When Tenants Claimed the City p. 31 |
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Format | Book Chapter |
Language | English |
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University of Illinois Press
01.03.2014
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Summary: | The rent-control statutes that tenants defended so tenaciously served to moderate prices that would otherwise be set higher by the law of supply and demand. But many tenants and housers understood rent control as a superficial fix. The underlying problem was scarcity of housing and a consequent landlord’s market. Therefore from the Depression onward, city tenants and their allies also promoted programs to build new rental units and improve old ones.
These efforts extended “New York exceptionalism” in two important ways. One was expansion of public housing. As with rent control, so with public developments: Postwar politics set the stage |
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ISBN: | 0252038185 9780252038181 |