{"product_id":"ours-to-lose-when-squatters-became-homeowners-in-new-york-city-022639994x","title":"Ours to Lose: When Squatters Became Homeowners in New York City","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 022639994X\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Starecheski, Amy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThough New Yorks 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51677959618848,"sku":"NEW022639994X","price":36.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/616rMtxMIML.jpg?v=1779300948","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/ours-to-lose-when-squatters-became-homeowners-in-new-york-city-022639994x","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}