Rally at City Hall

Committee to Save Our City's Homes demonstration at City Hall (1963).

Description: A demonstration by the Committee to Save Our City's Homes at City Hall for rent control and repairs. This rally occurred during a period when New York City enjoyed "home rule" (municipal juristiction over rent regulations). In 1971 home rule was reversed, giving state politicians in Albany juristiction over rent regulations in New York City. 

Date: Apr 1963

Creator: Unknown

Original Format: Black and White photograph, 3 x 3.5 inches

Citation: Metropolitan Council on Housing Records, digital ID = mch_000099d 

 

 Copy of the Title I Housing Ac of 1949 (1960).  Metropolitan Council on Housing Program for Urban Renewal (1962)    Open letter to Mayor Robert Wagner calling for the removal of Robert Moses (undated).  Flyer for a Committee to Save Our City's Homes demonstration at City Hall (1960s)

 Flyer against the Lower Manhattan Expressway (circa 1961).  
 Met Council on Housing publication Decent Housing for New York's People (1960s).  Flyer about Penn Station South urban renewal project (1960).  Pamphlet on discrimination at Stuyvesant Town (1950s).    Memo on the implementation of the Metcalf-Baker anti-discrimination law (1961).
  Committee to Save Our City's Homes demonstration on rent control and repair violations demonstration at City Hall (1963).

 

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