CONTENTS

   Prologue

PART ONE  FROM RENT HIKES TO RENT STRIKES

   1 The Postwar Housing Shortage

   2 Between a Rock and a Hard Place

   3 A Weighty Decision

   4 The Great Rent Strikes

PART TWO  THE ROAD TO RENT CONTROL

   5 The Mayor's Committee on Rent Profiteering

   6 Enter the State Legislature

   7 The April Laws

   8 The September Laws

PART THREE  CONSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGES

   9 The Battle in the State Courts

   10 The Fight in the Federal Courts

PART FOUR  RENT CONTROL WITHOUT A RENT COMMISSION

   11 A Question of Coverage

   12 A Reasonable Rent

   13 The Four Exceptions

PART FIVE  THE POLITICS OF RENT CONTROL

   14 Landlords and Tenants in New York and Albany

   15 The Extension of Rent Control

   16 The Expiration of Rent Control

   Epilogue

   Notes

   Acknowledgments

   Index