Ours to lose
Subtitle: when squatters became homeowners in New York City
By: Amy Starecheski
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780226399942; 9780226399805
Subjects: History; Home ownership; Social aspects; Attitudes; Squatter settlements; Occupancy (Law); Squatters
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Casa del Sol; Why study squatting? ; The research and writing: oral history and ethnography ; Structure of the work; title: From drug murder to door ceremony: claiming buildings, building claims. April 1984: Opening 539 ; Disinvestment, abandonment, and the social roots of squatting ; Urban homesteading: property, labor, and rights; title: Who deserves housing? The battle for East Thirteenth Street. Life on East Thirteenth Street: 1984-94 ; Low-income housing versus the squatters ; Making claims through adverse possession; title: Making the deal: debating the values of housing. The negotiations ; The details of the deal ; The debates; title: Why work? The values of labor. Building community: labor and value ; Bureaucracy, labor, and power; title: Making claims on the past and the future: debt, kinship, history, and the temporality of homeownership. Claims on the self: debt, freedom, and social personhood ; Claims on one another: from family to co-op ; Claims on the neighborhood: history, space, and identity ; Conclusion.