When Tenants Claimed the City: The Struggle for Citizenship in New York City Housing by Roberta Gold

When Tenants Claimed the City: The Struggle for Citizenship in New York City Housing

Women in American History

Roberta Gold

330 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction sociology informative medium-paced
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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...

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