![]() ![]() The largest tenant mobilization of this period occurred from 1917 to 1920, an event that saw labor leader Baruch Charney Vladeck call for a citywide rent strike, an action that was met with police violence and expulsions. European Jewish garment workers led the first documented organized tenant protest in New York in 1904, and the second wave of these strikes in 1907 became more socialist-led (anti-communist sentiment created easy support for court-ordered eviction of these protesters). ![]() The authors emphasize how urbanization shaped much of the early radical tenant movement because it led to growing numbers of working-class, immigrant renters “skilled in industrial organizing with backgrounds in European revolutionary politics” (p. They argue that the state of the housing movement in New York is ever-evolving, but that their anti-commodification stance and intersectional nature have remained constant. ![]() Using the geographic case study of New York, the authors use this section to demonstrate that at their core, “ housing movements are popular struggles by those for whom housing means home, not real estate” (p. ![]() Summary, part 3 Housing Movements of New York ![]()
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