{"product_id":"ours-to-lose-amy-starecheski-9780226399805","title":"Ours to Lose: When Squatters Became Homeowners in New York City","description":"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eOurs to Lose\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Amy Starecheski\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022639980X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226399805\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/07\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.00d","brand":"Amy Starecheski","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086409445631,"sku":"9780226399805","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1aab3316-4182-4b99-81ea-ee35341063a4.jpg?v=1769094505","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ours-to-lose-amy-starecheski-9780226399805","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}