Ours to Lose : When Squatters Became Homeowners in New York City / / Amy Starecheski

• Autore: Starecheski Amy
• Pubblicazione: Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (327 pages)
• Disciplina: 333.338097471
• Soggetto topico: Squatter settlements - New York (State) - New York; Squatters - New York (State) - New York; Occupancy (Law) - New York (State) - New York - History - 21st century; Occupancy (Law) - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century; Occupancy (Law) - Social aspects; Home ownership - Social aspects; Squatters - New York (State) - New York - Attitudes
• Soggetto geografico: Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) History 20th century; Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) History 21st century
• Soggetto non controllato: Lower East Side; New York City; debt; gentrification; homeownership; oral history; property; social movements; squatting; urban homesteading
• Classificazione: LB 72610
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2016.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- The Narrators -- The Eleven Buildings -- Introduction -- 1. From Drug Murder to Door Ceremony: Claiming Buildings, Building Claims -- 2. Who Deserves Housing?: The Battle for East Thirteenth Street -- 3. Making the Deal: Debating the Values of Housing -- 4. Why Work?: The Values of Labor -- 5. Making Claims on the Past and the Future: Debt, Kinship, History, and the Temporality of Homeownership -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- References -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Though New York's Lower East Side today is home to high-end condos and hip restaurants, it was for decades 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 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Ours to Lose
• ISBN: 0-226-40000-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910136698103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II