Ours to lose : when squatters became homeowners in New York City / Amy Starecheski
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TextPublisher: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016Description: 318 pages : illustrationsContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780226399942
- 9780226399805
- Förenta Staterna -- New York
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 21st century
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century
- 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
- Husockupationer -- historia
- Husockupanter -- historia
- 1980-talet
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction ; Casa del Sol; Why study squatting? ; The research and writing: oral history and ethnography ; Structure of the work -- 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 -- 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 -- Making the deal: debating the values of housing ; The negotiations ; The details of the deal ; The debates -- Why work? The values of labor ; Building community: labor and value ; Bureaucracy, labor, and power -- 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.