[lbo-talk] PBS special on socialist housing co-ops

Joseph Catron jncatron at gmail.com
Tue Apr 28 19:51:01 PDT 2009


On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 8:02 PM, B. <docile_body at yahoo.com> wrote:

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/athomeinutopia/

New York's limited-equity cooperative housing movement survives in Mitchell-Lama cooperatives, one of which I'm in the process of joining. Amalgamated Houses, one of three developments profiled by PBS, eventually joined this program.

The behemoth of the program, Co-op City in the Bronx, has 15,372 apartments, making it the largest housing coop in the world. It was also the site of the United States's largest rent strike in the 1970s, which defeated fee increases triggered by the city's financial crisis. The struggle was covered in great detail by Anders Corr's No Trespassing!

-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."



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