The Kirkby Rent Strike was a 14-month-long rent strike initiated by 3,000 tenants in October 1972 in the town of Kirkby, outside Liverpool, against the Housing Finances Act.[1][2] The strike 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]
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- ^ "Behind Rent Strike 1970's – Full". YouTube. 16 April 2011.
- ^ Murden, Jon (2006). "The 1972 Kirkby Rent Strike: Dockland Solidarity in a New Setting?". London: Economic History Society. Archived from the original (DOC) on 25 September 2006. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
- ^ "Kirkby Rent Strike 1972".
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