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Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives Collection of Housing Serials

Call Number

TAM.729

Date

1925-2002, inclusive

Creator

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
United Housing Foundation (New York, N.Y.)
New England Free Press
Lower East Side Joint Planning Council
Bronx Tenants Union
Cambridge Tenants Organizing Committee

Extent

2 Linear Feet
2 flat boxes, 1 record carton, and 1 manuscript box

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives Collection of Housing Serials groups 74 titles relating to housing originally received by the Tamiment Library through subscriptions, donations, and as part of archival collections. The majority of the collection consists of incomplete runs of newspapers and newsletters published by tenant associations, co-op federations, and neighborhood groups across the Northeastern United States between 1950-2000. Additionally, there are serials and pamphlets produced by agencies addressing planning, eviction, and homelessness, and a handful of titles from elsewhere in the US and from the United Kingdom. The serials address issues of living conditions, urbanization, and gentrification, often in the broader context of social movements happening more widely; there is also discussion of everyday community news more generally, with some titles including sections in Spanish. No complete runs of publications are contained herein, and generally only a handful of issues of each publication are held.

Arrangement

Material is arranged at the file level, in alphabetical order by publication title, with issues of each publication organized chronologically. Each title is listed alongside its publishing organization and city of origin, where available.

Scope and Contents

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives Collection of Housing Serials assembles partial runs of 74 publications addressing issues around housing, published between 1925 and 2002 mainly in the United States. The majority of the collection consists of newspapers and newsletters distributed by community organizations, alongside self-produced pamphlets, circulars, and one-off reports containing guidance from agencies addressing problems in housing. The serials document exchanges between government agencies and tenants' groups, relaying news of changes in housing law, standards governing living conditions, discriminatory renting practices, rent strikes, gentrification, squatting, and homelessness. Some titles record events in neighborhoods acutely impacted by changes in the availability and quality of housing, chronicling communities in the Bronx, Morningside Heights, Fort Greene, and the Lower East Side, New York; Somerville, Brockton, and Newton Centre, Massachusetts; and in the Bay Area of California and Seattle, Washington. Among the organizations whose publications are included are the Bronx Tenants Union; the Lower East Side Joint Planning Council; the Architects' Renewal Committee in Harlem; the Cambridge Tenants' Organizing Committee; the Amalgamated Housing Corporation; the United Housing Foundation; and Jobs or Income Now (JOIN). The majority of serials date between around 1970-1995, with a handful of earlier titles; smaller areas of the collection include single publications from London, England, and Toronto, Canada, and a report on the conditions of housing in the United States published in Switzerland. Publications often also cover neighborhood and community news more generally, addressing issues around jobs, transit, police brutality and anti-racism efforts, and some include Spanish-language sections. No complete runs of publications are contained herein, and generally only a handful of issues of each publication are held.

Conditions Governing Access

Materials are open without restrictions.

Conditions Governing Use

Because of the assembled nature of this collection, copyright status varies across the collection. Copyright is assumed to be held by the original creator of individual items in the collection; these items are expected to pass into the public domain 120 years after their creation. The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archive is not authorized to grant permission to publish or reproduce materials from this collection.

Preferred Citation

Identification of item, date; Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives Collection of Housing Serials; TAM.729; box number; folder number; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.

Location of Materials

Materials are stored offsite and advance notice is required for use. Please contact tamiment.wagner@nyu.edu at least two business days prior to your research visit to coordinate access.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

This collection combines serials relating to housing drawn from two discrete groups of material held by the Tamiment Library. The first was a partially inventoried backlog of serials received by the library through donations, subscriptions, and in archival collections. The second group consisted of around 1,700 serials, newspapers, and magazines, organized by title as an artificial collection, referred to as Periodicals.001 or Boxed Newspapers. This material was combined, inventoried, and arranged and described in subject-based categories in 2017. The accession number related to this collection is 2017.049.

Collection processed by

Mark Simon Haydn, Jennifer Gargiulo, and Victoria Messana.

About this Guide

This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2023-08-20 16:43:50 -0400.
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Language: Finding aid written in English.

Processing Information

The material in this collection was assembled from various backlogs of uncataloged material held by the Tamiment Library. This material was inventoried, separated according to its subject matter, and arranged in a series of subject-based artificial collections. Serials are arranged alphabetically by title, and where possible are listed alongside their publishing organization and place of publication.

Revisions to this Guide

March 2019: Updated by Molly A. Cross to incorporate material omitted during initial processing of the collection

Repository

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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30 Day Notice : The Union, Seattle, WA, 1983-1985, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

30 Years of Amalgamated Cooperative Housing 1927-1957 : Amalgamated Housing Corporation, Bronx, NY, 1958, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Alumni Cooperator : Inter-Cooperative Council, Ann Arbor, MI, 1982, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

At Home with JPC : Lower East Side Joint Planning Council, New York, NY, 1983, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Block Development Project : Block Development Project, New York, NY, 1965, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Building Together : New York, 2000, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Bulletin-Morningside Gardens : Morningside Heights Cooperative/Morningside Heights Housing Corp., New York, NY, 1954, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Cambridge Tenants' Newsletter : Cambridge Tenants' Organizing Committee, Boston, MA, 1975, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Camden Tenant : Camden Federation of Tenants and Residents Associations, London, England, 1972-1975, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

City Limits : Association of New Brotherhood Housing Developers, New York, NY, 1981-2000, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 8-11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

City News : Hagedorn Communications, Inc., Bronx, NY, 1975, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Colloquium: Newsletter of Research in Daily Life : Research in Daily Life, New York, NY, 1972, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Community News : Amalgamated Housing Corp, Bronx, NY, 1953-1954, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

CommUnity News, Boston, MA, 1975-1978, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Community Times, West Lafayette, IN, 1996, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Co-Op Activity: Co-Op Education Guild, New York, NY, 1962-1968, inclusive

Box: Shared Tamiment 053, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Co-op Bulletin : Potomac Co-op Federation, Washington, DC, 1951, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Co-Op Chapter : Cooperative Institute Association, New York Area Chapter, New York, NY, 1955

Box: 1, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Co-op City Times : Co-op City Times, Bronx, NY, 1975, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Co-op Contact : United Housing Foundation, New York, NY, 1959-1962, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Cooperator : United Housing Foundation, New York, NY, 1967-1973, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Crisis : Alliance for Housing, Jobs, and Education, Philadelphia, PA, 1969, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Eastern Cooperatives : Eastern Cooperative Wholesale, Inc., New York, NY, 1943, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Fort Greene Tenants Voice : Fort Greene Tenants Association , Brooklyn, NY, 1947, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Free Press : Somerville Tenants' Union, Somerville, MA, circa 1970s, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Handbook on the 1975 Rent Increase : Cambridge Tenants' Organinizing Committee, Cambridge, MA, 1975, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Hands Off the Homeless : Revolutionary Communist Party, New York Branch, New York, NY, circa 1991, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 26 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Harlem News : Architects' Renewal Committee in Harlem, New York, NY, 1967-1971, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 27 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 2, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

'Heights and 'Valley News : Columbia Tenants Union, New York, NY, 1974-1978, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Home Front : Action for the Homeless, Inc., Baltimore, MD, 1994, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 28 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 3, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Home Front : People's Homesteading Group Inc., Baltimore, MD, 1994, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 29 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Homes for All : Homes for All, Oakland, CA, 1994, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 30 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Housing & Jobs: A Blueprint for Survival : Jobs with Peace, Boston, MA, circa 1983, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 31 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Housing America : The National Council for the Social Studies, Washington, DC, 1940, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 32 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Housing Justice Campaign : Housing Justice Campaign, New York, NY, circa 1980s, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 33 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Les Conditions de Logement aux Etats-Unis : Bureau International du Travail, Geneva, Switzerland, 1925, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 34 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Life without Landlords : New Outlook Publishers, New York, NY, 1973, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 35 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Lincoln Park Press : Concerned Citizens Survival Front, Chicago, IL, 1969-1970, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 36 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Madison Tenant Union News : West Bronx Tenants Union, Bronx, NY, 1979, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Mass. Tenant : Massachusetts Tenants Organizing Committee, MA, 1971, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 37 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Metaviction : M Grandino, Santa Cruz, CA, 1984, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 38 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Metropolitan Council on Housing Papers : Metropolitan Council on Housing, New York, NY, 1967-1988, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 39 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Morningside Gardens News : Morningside Gardens Tenant-Cooperators Committee, New York, NY, 1978, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 40 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 3, Folder: 1-6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Neighborhood Works : Center for Neighborhood Technology, Inc., Chicago, IL, 1983, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 41 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

News: Not a Penny on the Rent : United Tenants Action Committee, Great Britain, circa 1960s, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Newsletter : Jobs or Income Now (JOIN), Chicago, IL, 1966-1967, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 42 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Notes on the Bench: Committee to Re-Elect Judge Margaret Cammer, Inc., Brooklyn, NY, 1992, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 43 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Organizing Development of a Federal Housing Tenant Union : San Francisco, CA, circa 1970s, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 44 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Peoples Press: News and Views of the Lower East Side Joint Planning Council : Lower East Side Joint Planning Council, New York, NY, 1983, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 45 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Public Housing Progress : National Public Housing Conference, New York, NY, 1940-1942, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 46 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Public Policy Principles : Interfaith Assembly on Homelessness and Housing, New York, NY, 1988, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 47 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Rent Strikes in New York : New England Free Press, Somerville, MA, 1967, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 48 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Report from your Board of Directors : Morningside Heights Housing Corp., New York, NY, 1978, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 49 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Reporte de La Ocupacion : One Purse, New York, NY, 1974, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 50 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Safety Network : Coalition for the Homeless, New York, NY, 1984-1989, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 51 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: Shared Tamiment 053, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Sea-Town Crier : Sea-Town Crier, Seattle, WA, 1991, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 52 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Shelter : Committee of Responsibility, Newton Centre, MA, circa 1973, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 53 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Slum Dweller : Lower East Side Public Housing Conference, New York, NY, 1938, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 54 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Somerville Free Press : Somerville Tenants Union, Somerville, MA, 1976, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 55 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

STIC : San Francisco Tenant Issues Council, San Francisco, CA, circa 1970s, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 56 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Tenant Report : Tenants Union of the West Side, Inc., New York, NY, 1973, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 57 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Tenants Against America: The War, the Master Plan, the Law, Evictions : Berkeley Tenants Union, Berkeley, CA, circa 1968, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 58 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Tenants Arising : Ithaca Tenants Union, Ithaca, NY, 1974, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 59 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The Tenants Association Council of Boston Public Housing : Stephen M. Scholnick, Boston, MA, circa 1963-1967, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 60 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Tenants First: Newsletter for FHA Tenants : Coalition of FHA Tenant Unions throughout Massachusetts, Cambridge, MA, 1974-1976, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 61 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Tenants Handbook: Legal Tactics : Cambridge Tenants' Organinizing Committee, Cambridge, MA, 1973, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 62 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Tenants News : Brockton Tenants Union, Brockton, MA, 1975-1976, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 63 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: Shared Tamiment 053, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Tenants' Newsletter : Cambridge Tenants' Organinizing Committee, Cambridge, MA, 1973, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 64 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Tenants United : Bronx Tenants Union, Bronx, NY, 1973, inclusive

Box: 2, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Title 1: Slum Clearance Progress; Committee on Slum Clearance Progress, New York, NY, 1953-1956, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 65 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

The War Against the Poor...Spatial Deconcentration!, circa 1980s, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 66 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Trefann Court News : Trefann Court Residents' Association, Toronto, Canada, 1968, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 67 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

United Tenant : United Tenants Assn., London, England, 1977, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 68 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Who's Moving: Regional Young Adult Project, San Francisco, CA, circa 1973, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 69 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: Shared Tamiment 053, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Working Paper : Tenants Action Group, Boston, MA, 1976, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 70 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
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