Housing - Jo Guldi - The Birth of Rent Control

The Birth of Rent Control

Jo Guldi

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A "Weekly Freeman Cartoon" likely by John Fergus O'Hea from The Freeman’s Journal, ca. 1887. Source: Rare Books & Special Collections (RBSC) at Notre Dame.

Housing
June 2020










Notes
1

Matthew Desmond, “Eviction and the Reproduction of Urban Poverty,” American Journal of Sociology 118, no. 1 (2012): 88–133; Matthew Desmond and Tracey Shollenberger, “Forced Displacement from Rental Housing: Prevalence and Neighborhood Consequences,” Demography 52, no. 5 (2015): 1751–1772; Matthew Desmond and Carl Gershenson, “Housing and Employment Insecurity Among the Working Poor,” Social Problems 63, no. 1 (2016): 46–67.

2

Bentley Brinkerhoff Gilbert, “David Lloyd George: Land, the Budget, and Social Reform,” The American Historical Review 81, no. 5 (1976): 1058–1066; Brian Short and Mick Reed, “An Edwardian Land Survey: The Finance (1909–10) Act 1910 Records,” Journal of the Society of Archivists 8, no. 2 (1986): 95–103; Ian Packer, Lloyd George, Liberalism and the Land: The Land Issue and Party Politics in England, 1906-1914, vol. 22 (Boydell & Brewer, 2001); David Coleman, “Rent Control: The British Experience and Policy Response,” Journal of Real Estate Finance & Economics 1, no. 3 (November 1988): 233–55; John W. Willis, “Short History of Rent Control Laws,” Cornell Law Quarterly 36 (1950): 54.

3

Gerry Kearns, “‘Up to the Sun and Down to the Centre’: The Utopian Moment in Anticolonial Nationalism,” Historical Geography 42 (2014): 130–151; Charles Dickenson Field, Landholding, and the Relation of Landlord and Tenant (Calcutta: Thacker, Spink, & Co., 1885), 287-8; A. M. Sullivan, New Ireland (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1878), 300, 328.

4

John Lanktree, The Elements of Land Valuation: With Copious Instructions as to the Qualifications and Duties of Valuators (Dublin: J. McGlashan, 1853); Henry L. Jephson, “The Valuation of Property in Ireland” (Glasgow: Read at a Meeting of the Association for Social Science, 1876); Murrough O’Brien, “On the Valuation of Real Property for Taxation,” Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland 7, no. 55 (1878): 385-90.

5

Lanktree, The Elements of Land Valuation, 3

6

“Mr. O’Hagan and the Land Court,” The Star (October 10, 1882); “Opening of the New Land Court,” The Morning Post (October 21, 1881).

7

Fry Report, 18.

8

Fry Report, 17.

9

Patrick Cosgrove, “Irish Landlords and the Wyndham Land Act, 1903,” in The Irish Country House: Its Past, Present and Future, eds. Terence A. M. Dooley and Christopher Ridgway (Dublin: Four Courts, 2011), 90–109.

10

Thanks to Jen Burns for turning my attention to this moment.

11

Friedrich A. von Hayek, “Repercussions of Rent Restrictions,” in Economic Freedom (Oxford, UK; Cambridge, MA: B. Blackwell, 1991), 309.