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Born in Flames

by Bench Ansfield · 15 Aug 2025 · 366pp · 138,787 words

organizing throughout the Bronx and in many other cities across the nation. Part III chronicles the anti-arson movement’s interracial experiments in tenant organizing, urban homesteading, community development, and computerized early warning systems, which ultimately helped stop the burnings. These efforts, including Boston’s Symphony Tenants Organizing Project and the Northwest

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what had been lost to the burning years. Two overlapping models materialized. The first was called sweat equity, and it was rooted in self-help, urban homesteading, and a vision of a Bronx without landlords. The second, community development corporations (CDCs), shared many of these values but moved toward a distinct political

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just as important were the PDC’s non-hierarchical structure and its early commitment to governing by consensus. For one member, “If the point of urban homesteading was to build and own an apartment through cooperative self-help, then that was also PDC’s point as a whole. If the building belonged

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city officials intentionally filthy in plaster, carrying crowbars and hammers.” Thirty-one PDC members were arrested, but the theatrics succeeded in getting the recently launched Urban Homesteading Assistance Board (UHAB) to advocate on their behalf. With UHAB’s help, they secured the first sweat equity municipal loan in the Bronx, a city

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the largest sweat equity rehabilitation program in New York.” It became one of the first two organizations to receive a pilot grant from the national Urban Homesteading Demonstration Program, administered by HUD.19 But despite the PDC’s extraordinary success securing funding for sweat equity, its relationship with the state and funders

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York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019), 381. 45Gelvin Stevenson, “The Insurance Experience of Sweat Equity Cooperatives and Non-Profit Housing Groups, 1973–1977,” for the Urban Homesteading Assistance Board (UHAB), pp. 3, 6, Folder: UHAB, Gelvin Stevenson Collection, BCHS. 46Elizabeth Holtzman, press releases, April 28 and November 2, 1977, Folder: FAIR: Congressional

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: Citywide Action Group Against Neighborhood Destruction and for Low-Rent Housing, 64–66 homelessness, 9, 57 homeowners policies, 12, 25–28, 147 homesteading, urban. See urban homesteading homosexuality (incl. homophobia), 121–23, 122 Hôtel de Paris (Monte Carlo), 142 housing abandonment. See abandonment Housing Abandonment in New York City (report), 64 Housing

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City), 63 “urban crisis,” 14, 28–29, 57, 161, 162, 163, 166, 171, 172, 258 Urban Educational Systems, 95, 208 urban homesteading, 14, 227, 230, 232, 234, 236 Urban Homesteading Assistance Board (UHAB), 232 Urban Homesteading Demonstration Program, 234 Urban Property Protection and Reinsurance Act (1968), 36–38, 40–41, 289 urban renewal, 14, 28, 53

The Frugal Life: How a Family Can Live Under $30,000 and Thrive

by Kate Singh · 31 May 2019 · 83pp · 16,943 words

many, many times because the yard was so small. I have children and dogs so I needed yardage. I wasn't even thinking “garden” or “urban homesteading.” I put a bid on it just to play the game. I already had a bid on another old house that would have taken a

Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth

by Juliet B. Schor · 12 May 2010 · 309pp · 78,361 words

-sufficiency has created an explosion of activity and creativity inside and outside cities. The best known of the trends is food cultivation, through organic gardening, urban homesteading, gleaning, and even a movement to grow fresh food “in small places,” such as crowded city apartments. Urbanites are moving far beyond herbs and vegetables

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and the planet. The Plenitude Consumer So, you’re following the program, working part-time at a new job you love, doing a bit of urban homesteading, and trying to get a small side business off the ground. But there’s more to life than being productive. What about consuming, the all

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, local sourcing by restaurants, Slow Food chapters, school-yard gardens, and related initiatives are on the rise. Practices are expanding from simple vegetable plots to urban homesteading. People are growing mushrooms, keeping bees, and raising livestock. A chicken underground has sprung up in cities with laws against backyard poultry, and urban poultry

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: Abdallah et al. (2009). The Costa Rica discussion is on p. 28; the United States’ rank is from the HPI results table, p. 61. 180 urban homesteading: Coyne and Knutzen (2008). 180 chicken underground: Block (2008). 181 The Transition Town movement: See http://transitiontowns.org/TransitionNetwork/TransitionNetwork and, for the United States

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growth of materials consumption in pensions in per capita income in rebound effects in sharing economy in technological change and well-being and urban farming urban homesteading value, monetized versus non-monetized forms of Velib Vertical Garden Victor, Peter Wackernagel, Mathis wages nonmonetized value and time wealth and Wal-Mart waste stream

Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer

by Novella Carpenter · 25 May 2010 · 306pp · 94,204 words

Web site) and in Mother Jones. Her adventures in urban agriculture began with honeybees and a few chickens, then some turkeys, until she created an urban homestead called GhostTown Farm near downtown Oakland, where she and her boyfriend, Bill, live today.

Heaven Is a Place on Earth: Searching for an American Utopia

by Adrian Shirk · 15 Mar 2022 · 358pp · 118,810 words

that Interference Archive—a Brooklyn-based independent archive of radical history—hosting an exhibition called Building for Us. The exhibition examined the emergence of the Urban Homesteading Assistance Board in New York City in the 1970s, and all of the homesteading and cooperative sweat equity actions that had led to its existence

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, 2016. The Beginning and the End Shirk, Adrian. “A Visit to Charlotte Street.” Catapult, October 5, 2016. catapult.co/stories/a-visit-to-charlotte-street. Urban Homesteading Assistance Board and Interference Archive. Building for Us: Stories of Homesteading and Cooperative Housing. Brooklyn, NY: Interference Archive, 2019. Exhibition. Living Evol, Keno. “Daunte Wright

What Technology Wants

by Kevin Kelly · 14 Jul 2010 · 476pp · 132,042 words

if a recurring phase, as is meditation or the Sabbath). In the past decade, a new generation of minimites has arisen, and they are now urban homesteading—living lightly in cities, supported by ad hoc communities of like-minded homesteaders. They are trying to have both—the Amish satisfaction of intense mutual

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as tools see also intelligence minimalism of counterculture dropouts expanded choices of others constrained by human nature as viewed by sense of fulfillment in of urban homesteading see also Amish Minsky, Marvin Mitcham, Carl Moirae (Fates) monkeys Montgomery Ward catalog Moon landing on Moore, Gordon Moore’s Law plateau of self-reinforced

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elements in energy density in expansion of fundamental forces of galaxies in Goldilocks zones of laws of physics in quantum nature of size scale of urban homesteading urbanization, see cities Uroboros utopianism vaccines Valery, Paul Varian, Hal Verne, Jules Viagra videophones vigilance principle vision: binocular color Vital Dust (de Duve) von Foerster

Organized Simplicity

by Tsh Oxenreider · 3 Nov 2010 · 210pp · 55,131 words

. Abandon your big-box grocery store and eat only from your garden. It’s a fun idea, and more families are catching on to the urban homesteading movement. But 80 percent of American households are two-income families and many people don’t feel like they have the time required to make

To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise

by Bethany Moreton · 15 May 2009 · 391pp · 22,799 words

-Mart did agree to landscape the parking lot.2 For the Arkansas-based company, its first stake in central New Orleans represented a form of urban homesteading. “The company started in rural areas [because] people in those areas did not have access to goods that other people did,” explained a spokeswoman, and

Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

by James C. Scott · 8 Feb 1999 · 607pp · 185,487 words

's South Bronx, once a synonym for the worst in urban decay. A combination of refurbishing existing buildings and apartments, promoting mixed-use development and urban homesteading, making small loans more readily available, and keeping to a modest scale appears to have facilitated the creation of viable neighborhoods. 109. Quoted in ibid

Saving America's Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age

by Lizabeth Cohen · 30 Sep 2019

into even more subcommunities. As the Prudential Center neared completion in 1964, the red-brick and brownstone houses on the nearest South End streets attracted urban homesteaders eager and financially able to convert rooming houses into single-family dwellings. Another group who found opportunity and tolerance in the diversity of the South