Kirkby Rent Strike

The Kirkby Rent Strike was a 14-month-long rent strike initiated by 3,000 tenants just prior to Christmas 1973 in the town of Kirkby, outside Liverpool, against the Housing Finances Act.[1][2] caused a £1 rent rise. A group of women on the Tower Hill estate formed a discussion and support group to help themselves and their families through the factory closure crisis when the Housing Finances Act was passed these women formed an Unfair Rents Action Group and responded by organizing the rent strike [3]

References

  1. ↑ "Behind Rent Stike 1970's FULL". YouTube. April 16, 2011.
  2. ↑ Murden, Jon (2006). "The 1972 Kirkby Rent Strike: Dockland Solidarity in a New Setting?" (DOC). London: Economic History Society.
  3. ↑ "Kirkby Rent Strike 1972".


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