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Leases --- Baux --- Occupancy (Law) --- Occupation (Droit civil)

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Squatter settlements --- Squatters --- Occupancy (Law) --- Occupancy (Law) --- Occupancy (Law) --- Home ownership --- Squatters --- History --- History --- Social aspects --- Social aspects --- Attitudes --- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) --- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) --- History --- History

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Occupancy (Law) --- Territory, National --- Sovereignty --- Colonization --- Occupation (Droit civil) --- Territoire national --- Souveraineté --- Colonisation

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Though New York's 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.

Squatter settlements --- Squatters --- Occupancy (Law) --- Occupancy (Law) --- Occupancy (Law) --- Home ownership --- Squatters --- History --- History --- Social aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Attitudes. --- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) --- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) --- History --- History --- Lower East Side. --- New York City. --- debt. --- gentrification. --- homeownership. --- oral history. --- property. --- social movements. --- squatting. --- urban homesteading.

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This book explains why nearly thirty years after the transition to democracy, the South African government continues to evict squatters from urban land. It argues that housing officials view occupiers as threats to the government's housing delivery program, which, they insist, requires order and state control. New occupations are therefore stigmatized as "disorderly" threats, and government actors represent their removal as a precondition for access to housing. Drawing on a decade of sustained ethnographic fieldwork in two such occupations in Cape Town, this study explains why one was evicted, whereas the other was ultimately tolerated, answering a central question in urban studies: how do governments decide when to evict, and conversely, when to tolerate? These decisions are not made in a vacuum but instead require an analysis that expands what we typically call "the state." This book argues that the state does not simply "see" occupations, as if they were a feature of the natural landscape. Rather, occupiers collectively project themselves to government actors, affecting how they are seen. But residents are not only seen; they also see, which shapes how they organize themselves. When residents see the state as an antagonist, they tend to unify under a single leadership; but when they see it as a potential ally, they often remain atomized as if they were individual customers. The unity in the former case projects an orderly population, less likely to be evicted; but the fragmentation in the latter case projects a disorderly mass, serving to legitimate eviction rulings.

Squatters. --- Land use, Urban. --- Housing policy --- Urban land use --- Cities and towns --- Urban economics --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- Occupancy (Law) --- Public lands --- Squatter settlements --- South African --- land occupation