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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