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 inWhen Tenants Claimed the City p. 31
Main Author ROBERTA GOLD
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published University of Illinois Press 01.03.2014
Subjects
African Americans
American minorities
Anthropology
Behavioral sciences
Cities
City districts
Civil law
Contract law
Contracts
Development studies
Ethnic groups
Ethnology
Housing
Human geography
Law
Leases
Liberalism
Metropolitan areas
Political geography
Political ideologies
Political philosophy
Political science
Public housing
Slums
Social sciences
Tenancy
Tenants
Urban development
Urban renewal
White people
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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
ISBN:0252038185
9780252038181