Good Landlords Make Good Neighbors: Tenant Complaints, Social Policing, and the Responsibilities of Landlords in Interwar Chicago
Published online on March 27, 2026
Abstract
Journal of Urban History, Ahead of Print.
By the 1920s, apartments were among the prototypical living arrangements for urban tenants in cities like Chicago. These tenants found their domestic lives constrained by the spatial realities of apartments and the landlord-tenant relationship. Through an ...
By the 1920s, apartments were among the prototypical living arrangements for urban tenants in cities like Chicago. These tenants found their domestic lives constrained by the spatial realities of apartments and the landlord-tenant relationship. Through an ...