See Also
Essential Books
& Publications
“How
Subsidized Housing Keeps the Poor Down” Book review
by Carol W. LaGrasse, April 9, 2005
Review of: America’s Trillion-Dollar Housing Mistake-The
Failure of American Housing Policy
By Howard Husock (Ivan R. Dee, Chicago 2003)
City Journal
Indispensable quarterly about
the economics, politics, and life of New York City
Published by the Manhattan Institute
52 Vanderbilt Avenue, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10017(212) 599-7000
The Ecology of Housing Destruction
By Peter D. Salins, Chairman,
Dept. of Urban Affairs
Hunter College, City University of New York
New York University Press for the
International Center for Economic Policy Studies (1980)
Salins illuminated how existing public policies and regulations
that were meant to assist have helped destroy New York’s
housing. At the time of publication in 1980, 200,000 apartments
had been destroyed within a decade. The subsequent loss of housing
stock in New York City can largely be explained by his treatise.
Additional Helpful
Organizations
American Association of Small Property Owners, F. Patricia Callahan, President
(Connects hundreds of associations of small landlords and other
property owners throughout the country)
address
Homeowners Against Rent Kontrols
(HARK), Adrian R. Tiemann, Ph.D., President
(Association of small landlords in New York City)
address
Websites
Manhattan Institute
for Public Policy Research
Manhattan Institute
is a think tank whose mission is to develop and disseminate new
ideas that foster greater economic choice and individual responsibility.
www.manhattan-institute.org
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In-Depth Information
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 “Behind Rent
Control: Property Rites and Economic Wrongs” - Adrian R. Tiemann, Ph.D.,
President, HARK, Homeowners Against Rent Kontrols, Schenectady,
N.Y., from Proceedings of the Third Annual New York Conference
on Private Property Rights (PRFA 1998)
Ms. Tiemann documents how the wealthy disproportionately occupy
rent controlled units, how politicians and bureaucrats benefit
from the system, and how the losses and bankruptcies that landlords
experience impact income taxes collected by the State, and are
passed along to upstate, as well as urban, taxpayers. Her speech
concludes with urgently needed, practical recommendations for
reform.
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- “Rent
Control” — Marcy Ellin Boucher from Proceedings
of the Third Annual New York Conference of Private Property
Rights (PRFA, 1998)
Ms. Boucher describes her Kafkaesque ordeal attempting to
collect rent from the free-loading, well-organized 18 tenants
in her apartment house, who are protected by rent control and
New York City’s system of tenant protections.
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