This is an ethnographic study of predominantly Puerto Rican
low-income people on the Lower East Side of Manhattan who have been
involved in the rehabilitation of abandoned buildings through
sweat-equity urban homesteading from 1978 to 1993. The study
combines a portrait of homesteading in a contemporary urban
environment with an analysis of homesteading in the context of
economic and political developments at the local, state, and
national levels. As participant-observer of the rehabilitation
efforts, von Hassell was impressed with the ingenuity and
initiative of poor and working-class people. She came to the
conclusion that housing as a central factor in poverty amelioration
must be interpreted with other factors such as labor, education,
and health care, and that despite internal conflicts the project
could have been more successful if it had received local political,
governmental, and social services support.
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