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Ours to Lose - When Squatters Became Homeowners in New York City (Paperback)
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Ours to Lose - When Squatters Became Homeowners in New York City (Paperback)
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Though New York's Lower East Side today is home to high-end condos
and hip restaurants, it spent decades as an infamous site of
blight, open-air drug dealing, and class conflict an emblematic
example of the tattered state of 1970s and '80s Manhattan. Those
decades of strife, however, also gave the Lower East Side something
unusual: a radical movement that blended urban homesteading and
European-style squatting into something 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.
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