Wikipedia:WikiProject New York City/Housing and Tenant Rights Task Force

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{{short description|Task force focused on housing and tenant rights in New York}}

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| name = Housing and Tenant Rights in New York Task Force

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| type = Public Service Project

| location = New York City

| owner = under WikiProject New York State, WikiProject New York City

| established = 2023

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The Housing and Tenant Rights in New York Task Force of WikiProject New York State and WikiProject New York City was established in 2023 to create, edit, and upload information on housing rights and tenant rights in New York on Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikidata.

Articles covered

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* Government agencies overseeing housing in New York City

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|Top_text = Subject is a high-level overview of housing or tenant rights in New York.

|Top_example = Homelessness in New York, New York City housing shortage, Rent regulation in New York

|High_text = Subject has/had a major impact on housing and tenant rights in New York.

|High_example = New York State Tenement House Act, 1918-1920 New York City rent strikes,{{br}}Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, Anti-Rent War

|Mid_text = Subject has/had a moderate impact on housing and tenant rights in New York.

|Mid_example = Crown Heights Tenant Union, 1907 New York City Rent Strike,

|Low_text = Subject has/had a minimal impact on housing and tenant rights in New York.

|Low_example = Rent Is Too Damn High Party, Open New York, Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space

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|Unknown = yes

|Unknown_text = Articles that have yet to be assigned an importance

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Resources

;Archives

  • [https://fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html fultonhistory.com] Massive freely accessible public domain newspaper archive for supporting sources{{br}}(It's cumbersome to navigate through search, with an account the index is much more helpful. Often has papers not available anywhere else)
  • [https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/ nyshistoricnewspapers.org] (More accessible archive)
  • [https://www.laguardiawagnerarchive.lagcc.cuny.edu/LAG_ARC_MAIN.aspx www.laguardiawagnerarchive.lagcc.cuny.edu] The LaGuardia Wagner Archives which houses papers of 20th-21st century mayors of New York by the City University of NY.

;Books

  • [http://tenant.net/Community/history/hist-toc.html The Tenant Movement in New York City, 1904-1984]

::Original scan available at the Archive.org Library, [https://archive.org/details/tenantmovementin0000unse Here]

  • Urban Castles: Tenement Housing and Landlord Activism in New York City 1890-1943
  • The Great Rent Wars: New York, 1917-1929
  • When Tenants Claimed the City: The Struggle for Citizenship in New York City Housing
  • [https://archive.org/details/indefenseofhousi0000madd In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis, Archive Library]
  • Affordable Housing in New York: The People, Places, and Policies That Transformed a City
  • A People's Guide to New York City
  • [https://archive.org/details/newyorkforsaleco0000ango New York for Sale: Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate, Archive Library]
  • The Long Crisis New York City and the Path to Neoliberalism
  • Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century
  • {{Citation |last=Borders |first=K |title=Emergency Rent Control |date=1942 |url=https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2122&context=lcp}}
  • {{Citation |last=Willis |first=John |title=Short History of Rent Control Laws |date=1950-09-01 |work=Cornell Law Review |volume=36 |issue=1 |pages=54–94 |url=https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/216744708.pdf |access-date=2024-05-09 |issn=0010-8847}}
  • [https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/j.ctt7zw63v When Tenants Claimed the City: The Struggle for Citizenship in New York City Housing]

;Articles

  • [https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1722&context=hc_pubs Direct Action Housing: Exploring the History of Tenant-led Housing Struggles — on Film — in NYC]

;Other

  • Right to Counsel NYC

:* [https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/righttocounselnyc/pages/36/attachments/original/1544112893/Highlights_Sheet__2_%281%29.pdf?1544112893 NYC Tenant Movement History Highlights]

:* [https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/righttocounselnyc/pages/36/attachments/original/1544112895/Ver._2_Direct_Action_highlights__%281%29.pdf?1544112895 NYC Tenant Movement History Direct Action Highlights]

:* [https://www.rtcnyctenantmovementhistorytimeline.org/t/d2ywxewgmb6es6yf79l1t0366667t7bu NYC Tenant Movement Interactive Timeline]

:* [https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/righttocounselnyc/pages/1248/attachments/original/1630366104/Tenant_Movement_History_Timeline_Slides_-_English.pdf?1630366104 Tenant Movement Timeline, pdf version]

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  • [https://interferencearchive.org/exhibition/we-wont-move/ Interference Archive Exhibition: We Won’t Move: Tenants Organize in New York City]{{br}}
  • [https://library.brown.edu/pdfs/1124108714482142.pdf| Radical America #01.03: The New York rent strikes (1880-1963)]

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