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Homes for Living: the Fight for Social Housing and a New American Commons
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| Publisher | Beacon Press |
| Dimensions | 6.3 x 0.98 x 9.28 inches |
| Language | English |
| Print length | 280 pages |
| Item Weight | 1.04 pounds |
| ISBN-10 | 0807017809 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0807017807 |
| Publication date | February 11, 2025 |
A tale of two NYC affordable housing co-ops’ struggle over privatization, public goods, and the future of American housing
A New Yorker Best Book of 2025
The American Dream of homeownership is becoming an American Delusion. As renters seek an escape from record-breaking rent hikes, first-time buyers find that skyrocketing interest rates and historically low inventory leave them with scant options for an affordable place to live. With home valued more than ever as a commodity, even social housing programs meant to insulate families from cut-throat markets are under threat—sometimes by residents themselves.
In Homes for Living, urban planner and oral historian Jonathan Tarleton introduces readers to 2 social housing co-ops in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Longtime residents of St. James Towers and Southbridge Towers lock horns over whether to maintain the rules that have kept their homes affordable for decades or to cash out at great personal profit, thereby denying future generations the same opportunity to build thriving communities rooted in mutual care.
With a deft hand for mapping personal histories atop the greater housing crisis, Tarleton explores housing as a public good, movements for tenant rights and Indigenous sovereignty, and questions of race and class to lay bare competing visions of what ownership means, what homes are for, and what neighbors owe each other.
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