Wikipedia:WikiProject Housing and Tenant Rights

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There is currently a lack of articles covering tenant history, the goal is to improve and widen the scope of articles on tenant subjects in general on Wikipedia. Focusing primarily on the history of land ownership and tenant advocacy. Currently there is limited information on this topic.

This project would seek to gather articles together, and organize efforts.

1. To create, expand, and globalize, articles related to tenant organizing.
2. To create and expand articles for individual tenant unions and history.

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edit  New Articles Add article Talk United Tenants League -- LoomCreek (talk) 04:18, 4 September 2025 (UTC)[reply] 1931-1933 New York City rent strikes -- LoomCreek (talk) 20:50, 26 August 2025 (UTC)[reply] Anti-internment rent and rates strike --Bejakyo (talk) 23:40, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply] Eviction resistance -- LoomCreek (talk) 22:35, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply] 2025 Chicago ACTA rent strikes -- LoomCreek (talk) 07:33, 4 August 2025 (UTC)[reply] Template:Rent strikes -- LoomCreek (talk) 19:48, 27 July 2025 (UTC)[reply] Rent control in British Columbia -- Viv Desjardin (talk, contrib) 21:33, 18 June 2025 (UTC)[reply] Louisville Tenants Union -- Catboy69 (talk) 16:12, 3 June 2025 (UTC)[reply] List of tenant unions in the United States -- Catboy69 (talk) 14:20, 3 June 2025 (UTC)[reply] Commodification of housing -- Catboy69 (talk) 04:08, 3 June 2025 (UTC)[reply] Housing in Vienna -- Bejakyo (talk) 23:14, 2 June 2025 (UTC)[reply] List of rent strikes -- Bejakyo (talk) 21:08, 1 May 2025 (UTC)[reply] 1920-1921 Chicago rent strikes -- LoomCreek (talk) 03:15, 1 May 2025 (UTC)[reply] Holdover rent penalty -- LoomCreek (talk) 20:03, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply] 1970–1973 Republic of Ireland rent strikes --Bejakyo (talk) 00:00, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply] Greater Manchester Tenants Union --Bejakyo (talk) 18:58, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply] London Renters Union --Bejakyo (talk) 15:53, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply] Tulare County farm labor camps rent strike --LoomCreek (talk) 07:35, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply] Tenants' Union of Catalonia --Bejakyo (talk) 00:36, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply] Tenant Union Federation --Bejakyo (talk) 01:45, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply] 1925 Tenant Movement --Bejakyo (talk) 01:39, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply] 1931 Barcelona rent strike (created by User:Michalis Vazaios) --Bejakyo (talk) 22:33, 4 November 2024 (UTC)[reply] Alliance Citoyenne --Bejakyo (talk) 05:11, 26 October 2024 (UTC)[reply] 2024 Kansas City metropolitan area rent strike - 💽 LunaEclipse 💽 ⚧ ^【=◈︿◈=】 10:07, October 18, 2024 (UTC)

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Non-exhaustive list of articles under purview	Articles by Quality and Importance	Hot articles
Public housing Eviction Ghetto Redlining Rent regulation Renting Retaliatory eviction Housing cooperative Housing crisis Landlord Squatting Subsidized housing Tenants union etc...	Housing and Tenant Rights articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total GA 1 2 1 4 B 6 11 4 5 1 27 C 14 24 23 17 3 81 Start 18 34 24 27 8 111 Stub 2 9 9 6 2 28 List 2 2 Category 14 14 Project 1 1 Redirect 1 1 1 3 Template 2 2 Other 1 2 16 19 Assessed 42 82 62 58 34 14 292 Unassessed 1 1 2 Total 42 83 62 58 34 15 294 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 1,136 Ω = 4.53 '	115 edits 1931-1933 New York City rent strikes 14 edits 2025 Chicago ACTA rent strikes 7 edits 1918–1920 New York City rent strikes 5 edits Tenants union 5 edits Abolition of the Right to Buy and Associated Rights (Wales) Act 2018 4 edits Federal Housing Finance Agency 4 edits United Workers Cooperatives 4 edits Slum 3 edits Rent regulation 3 edits Rent party These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last seven days. Last updated 27 August 2025 by HotArticlesBot.

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Article importance grading scheme

Label	Criteria	Detail	Examples
Top	Reserved for high level overview articles on housing rights and tenants rights. These are considered fundamental to the topic.	Key articles on understanding housing issues and tenants issues Key articles on improving housing rights and tenants rights.	Homelessness, Housing crisis, Slum Rent strike, Rent regulation, Tenant union, Housing cooperative
High	Subject has/had a major or national relevence on housing rights and tenant rights.	Articles on major current/historical components of tenants rights, strikes and movements. Country-wide overview articles.	1915 Glasgow rent strikes, Tulare labor camps rent strike, 1925 Tenant Movement, Chicago Freedom Movement Public housing in Singapore, Housing in the US
Mid	Subject has/had a moderate or regional relevence on housing rights and tenant rights, and main articles on tenant unions.	General housing rights and tenants rights articles, strikes and movements. Regional and major city overview articles. Tenant unions.	Tenants' strike of 1907, Section 21 notice, Red Clydeside, Red Vienna Rent control in Massachusetts Tenants' Union of Catalonia, KC Tenants
Low	Subject has/had a minor or local relevence on housing rights and tenant rights.	Articles of small-scope, minor housing rights and tenants rights articles. Housing project related buildings.	Article 7A (NYC housing code) Khrushchevka, Karl-Marx-Hof
???	Articles yet to be assigned an importance

Resources

General

Rent Strikes: A history of collective tenant actions across the world. ISBN 978-1-80008-980-8. Collective, CrimethInc Ex-Workers (2020-03-30). "CrimethInc. : Rent Strike? : A Strategic Appraisal of Rent Strikes throughout History—and Today". CrimethInc. Retrieved 2025-07-30. "Shelterforce". Retrieved 15 October 2024. "a guide to tenants unions in the u.s." abolition notes. Retrieved 2024-10-15. Crosby, Andrew A. (2023). Resisting eviction: domicide and the financialization of rental housing. Halifax, Novs Scotia ; Winnipeg, Manitoba: Fernwood Publishing. ISBN 978-1-77363-637-5. OCLC 1379422130. G. Guzmán, Jordi; Ill-Raga, Marta (2022-05-04). "Rent Strikes: Revolutions at Point Zero". Socialism and Democracy. 36 (1–2): 193–215. doi:10.1080/08854300.2022.2170681. ISSN 0885-4300. Banik-Schweitzer, Renate; M. J., Daunton (1990). Housing the Workers, 1850-1914: A Comparative Perspective. Leicester university press. ISBN 0-7185-1315-0.

United Kingdom

Moorhouse, Bert; Wilson, Mary; Chamberlain, Chris (17 March 1972). "Rent Strikes - Direct Action and the Working Class". Socialist Register. 9: 133–156. Walker, Rosie (2016). The rent trap : how we fell into it and how we get out of it. London : Pluto Press. ISBN 978-1-78371-749-1 – via Internet Archive. Hock, Emma S.; Blank, Lindsay; Fairbrother, Hannah; Clowes, Mark; Cuevas, Diana Castelblanco; Booth, Andrew; Clair, Amy; Goyder, Elizabeth (2024-09-09). "Exploring the impact of housing insecurity on the health and wellbeing of children and young people in the United Kingdom: a qualitative systematic review". BMC Public Health. 24 (1): 2453. doi:10.1186/s12889-024-19735-9. ISSN 1471-2458. PMC 11385840. PMID 39251944.

NYC

Archives fultonhistory.com Massive freely accessible public domain newspaper archive for supporting sources (It's cumbersome to navigate through search, with an account the index is much more helpful. Often has papers not available anywhere else) nyshistoricnewspapers.org (More accessible archive) 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 The Tenant Movement in New York City, 1904-1984 Original scan available at the Archive.org Library, Here Urban Castles: Tenement Housing and Landlord Activism in New York City 1890-1943 The Great Rent Wars: New York, 1917-1929 Sammartino, Annemarie H. (2022). Freedomland: Co-op City and the Story of New York. Cornell University Press. doi:10.7591/j.ctv1q8tfss. ISBN 978-1-5017-1644-7. When Tenants Claimed the City: The Struggle for Citizenship in New York City Housing 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 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 Borders, K (1942), Emergency Rent Control Willis, John (1950-09-01), "Short History of Rent Control Laws" (PDF), Cornell Law Review, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 54–94, ISSN 0010-8847, retrieved 2024-05-09 When Tenants Claimed the City: The Struggle for Citizenship in New York City Housing Articles Direct Action Housing: Exploring the History of Tenant-led Housing Struggles — on Film — in NYC Other Right to Counsel NYC NYC Tenant Movement History Highlights NYC Tenant Movement History Direct Action Highlights NYC Tenant Movement Interactive Timeline Tenant Movement Timeline, pdf version Interference Archive Exhibition: We Won’t Move: Tenants Organize in New York City Radical America #01.03: The New York rent strikes (1880-1963)

Chicago

Cleaves, Kay (April 11, 2016). ""This Was No Church" (1881-1963) A History of Renters' Rights in Chicago, Part I". Robbins, Mark W. (2017). "5. Rent War! Middle-Class Tenant Organizing". Middle Class Union: Organizing the 'Consuming Public' in Post-World War I America. University of Michigan Press. doi:10.3998/mpub.9343785. ISBN 978-0-472-13033-7. JSTOR 10.3998/mpub.9343785. Archived from the original on April 4, 2024. Retrieved April 4, 2024. Hill, Gil Cornfield, Melody Heaps, Norman (2018-01-15). "The Chicago Freedom Movement's quest for economic justice". The Chicago Reporter. Retrieved 2024-10-15. Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta (January 2012), Tenant Unions, Rent Strikes, Fighting Foreclosure, and Eviction Blockades: Black Chicago's Struggle for Housing Justice

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