...This chapter discusses the efforts of New York’s real estate to challenge the emergency rent laws in court. It details the rulings in cases such as Brixton v. La Fetra, Durham Realty Corporation v. La Fetra, Guttag v. Shatzkin, and Edgar...

.... It concludes that Block v. Hirsh shaped the subsequent history of rent control not only in Washington, D.C., but also in the rest of the country. In the case of New York, the decision meant that the emergency rent laws would stand until November 1, 1922, unless they were modified or repealed...

... A judges municipal court McLaughlin Chester B Marks Jacob reasonable rent Spiegelberg Frederick J Aron Harold G Doyle Edward P emergency rent laws Haber Ferdinand I House Victor Isaacs Lewis M Kilpatrick William D Lauer Edgar J Marshall Louis B Pratt Ernest T Real Estate Board of New York...

.... emergency rent laws McNulty A C Real Estate Board of New York Spiegelberg Frederick J summary proceedings tenants Chittick Richard O Hilly Arthur J W Lockwood Charles C Lockwood Committee New York State legislature United Tenants Organization Deyber Frank J Guy Charles L Korn William...

...This chapter describes landlords’ efforts to circumvent the emergency rent laws. Some targeted chapter 944, which empowered the municipal courts to set reasonable rents for residential property. Landlords inflated the value of their property—or hired expert witnesses to inflate it for them. Others...

...This chapter focuses on the campaign of New York’s real estate to stop the state legislature from extending the emergency rent laws beyond February 15, 1926. The emergency rent laws officially expired on May 31, 1929, nine years after they had been enacted. Affected were the temporary statutes...

...The Epilogue describes the aftermath of the expiration of the emergency rent laws. It focuses on the bill proposed by Alderman Charles H. McGillick, a Democrat from Harlem, to impose rent control in New York after June 1, 1929. The bill provided that if a landlord sued a tenant for nonpayment...

...This chapter discusses issues concerning the scope of the emergency rent laws. It presents the decisions in cases which addressed issues such as whether the April laws were retroactive; the rules for eviction; whether rent laws were applicable to new tenants; and the treatment for apartments...

... exclusively at rapacious landlords. The chapter then turns to the September laws—which, together with the April laws, were known as the emergency rent laws—constituted the most extensive revision of landlord-tenant law in New York State since 1820. Under these laws most New Yorkers became statutory tenants...

...This chapter discusses the extension of emergency rent laws beyond November 1, 1922. Housing conditions were just as bad in late 1921 as in late 1920. Residential construction remained low except in a few remote parts of the outer boroughs where vacant land was available at relatively low prices...