Ours to Lose When Squatters Became Homeowners in New York City
by Starecheski, Amy
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Those decades of strife, however, also gave the Lower East Side something unusual: a radical movement that blended urban homesteading and European-style squatting in a way never before seen in the United States. Ours to Lose tells the oral history of that movement through a close look at a diverse group of Lower East Side squatters who occupied abandoned city-owned buildings in the 1980s, fought to keep them for decades, and eventually began a long, complicated process to turn their illegal occupancy into legal cooperative ownership. Amy Starecheski here not only tells a little-known New York story, she also shows how property shapes our sense of ourselves as social beings and explores the ethics of homeownership and debt in post-recession America.
Product Details
- University of Chicago Pre Brand
- Nov 7, 2016 Pub Date:
- 9780226399942 ISBN-13:
- 022639994X ISBN-10:
- English Language
- 0.7 in * 5.9 in * 9 in Dimensions:
- 1 lb Weight:
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