Carving Out the Commons - Tenant Organizing and Housing Cooperatives in Washington, D.C.Paperback
Carving Out the Commons - Tenant Organizing and Housing Cooperatives in Washington, D.C.Paperback An investigation of the practice of "commoning" in urban housing and its necessity for challenging…
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Carving Out the Commons - Tenant Organizing and Housing Cooperatives in Washington, D.C.Paperback
An investigation of the practice of "commoning" in urban housing and its necessity for challenging economic injustice in our rapidly gentrifying citiesProvoked by mass evictions and the onset of gentrification in the 1970s, tenants in Washington, D.C., began forming cooperative organizations to collectively purchase and manage their apartment buildings. Drawing on feminist and anticapitalist perspectives, Huron asks whether a commons can work in a city where land and other resources are scarce and how These tenants were creating a commons, taking a resource--housing--that had been used to extract profit from them and reshaping it as a resource that was collectively owned by them.In Carving Out the Commons, Amanda Huron theorizes the practice of urban "commoning" through a close investigation of the city's limited-equity housing cooperatives.