When tenants claimed the city : the struggle for citizenship in New York City housing /
In postwar America, not everyone wanted to move out of the city and into the suburbs. For decades before World War II, New York's tenants had organized to secure renters' rights. After the war, tenant activists raised the stakes by challenging the newly-dominant ideal of homeownership in r...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2014] |
| Series: | Women in American history.
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Table of Contents:
- A time of struggle : holding the line in the 1940s
- The right to lease and occupy a home : equality and public provision in housing development
- So much life : retrenchment in the Cold War
- Out of these ghettos, people who would fight : claiming power in the sixties
- A lot of investment, a lot of roots : defending urban community
- Territorio libre : upheaval in the Vietnam War era
- To plan our own community : government, grassroots, and local development
- A piece of heaven in hell : struggles in the backlash years.