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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?As this book by Malve von Hassell illustrates, the challenges urban homesteaders face are no less daunting than those faced by the pioneers of the American West....Readers will definitely gain a more comprehensive understanding of urban homesteading.?-CJUR
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Provides insights into the dynamics and potentials of poverty-driven community-based housing initiatives.
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homesteading projects, homesteading movement, homesteading model, one homesteader, urban homesteading program, other building members, homesteading effort, homesteading work, community land trust, women homesteaders, other homesteaders, squatter buildings, homesteading programs, many homesteaders, buildup process, tenant organizing, doing security, housing efforts, housing movements, building rehabilitation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York City, Nazareth Home, Puerto Ricans, United States, Banana Kelly, Catholic Church, Community District, Community Board, Los Sures, World War, Department of City Planning, Inner City Press, Tompkins Square Park, Marlis Mombers, Pueblo Nuevo, East Village, Houston Street, Save the Children, Cooper Square Committee, Great Society, Mutual Housing Associations, New Federalism, Peter Stuyvesant, South Bronx, Bureau of the Census New!
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- Guide to Federal Housing Programs by Barry G. Jacobs on page 21, and Back Matter
- Latin America (Routledge Introductions to Development) by Alan Gilbert on page 33, and Back Matter
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