1931–1933 New York City rent strikes

The 1931–33 New York City rent strikes were a series of tenant mobilizations against evictions and for housing relief by tenants of Harlem, Bronx and Brooklyn, sparked in large part by the crisis of the Great Depression alongside the expiration of the Emergency Rent Laws in 1929. Organizing was led primarily by the Communist Party USA Unemployed Councils, with tenants of the United Workers Cooperative playing an important supporting role for strikers.

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