1961 that, though largely symbolic, generated media traction and political clout for the movement, and (2) a movement of radical Black movement participants led by the Black Panther Party and the Young Lords party who used a direct action approach to bring attention to the failings of the state and encouraged poor New York City neighborhoods to take charge of abandoned properties. After the Harlem rent strikes in 1963-4, it became a popular tactic both among students in university towns and public housing tenants who were living in squalid conditions due to lack of funding and racist federal policies. South America Tenants' strike of 1907 In 1907, a popular movement against the rise in rents in tenant houses in the city of Buenos Aires and other Argentine cities, popularly called conventillos, escalated into a rent strike. The strike began in August 1907, it lasted approximately 3 months and more than one hundred tenants participated in the movement, with thirty-two thousand workers on strike. It had a significant presence of anarchist and socialist activists. See also Eviction Landlord harassment Kirkby Rent Strike Liverpool City Council v Irwin [1976] UKHL 1, a UK case on rent strikes, finding that the matter should be handled as a question of implied contract terms UK labour law Women of Quinn Square Article 7A (NYC housing code) Tenants union Landlord harassment References On the Tenant Power Question by Dan Jakopovich "New Joan of Arc Leads Rent Strike", The New York Times, December 27, 1907 Strikes (protest) Affordable housing Real property law Renting