ity whose judicial system was too overburdened to handle the large number of evictions. Landlords fought back by issuing mass evictions, sometimes to entire blocks of tenants.
             In the late 1930s, activists were finally able to create an organized city-wide federation of local tenants unions which fought for minimum safety standards, public housing, and rent control. A 1939 act did limit rent increases in older buildings not brought into compliance with safety codes, giving limited rent control protection to low income tenants.
             World War II brought yet another housing cri
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