Download or read book Carving Out the Commons written by Amanda Huron and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation of the practice of “commoning” in urban housing and its necessity for challenging economic injustice in our rapidly gentrifying cities Provoked 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. 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. 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 strangers who may not share a past or future come together to create and maintain commonly held spaces in the midst of capitalism. Arguing against the romanticization of the commons, she instead positions the urban commons as a pragmatic practice. Through the practice of commoning, she contends, we can learn to build communities to challenge capitalism’s totalizing claims over life.

Download or read book Washington D C Housing Co ops A History written by Stephen McKevitt and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For one hundred years, housing cooperatives in various sizes and shapes have been a positive part of the urban landscape of Washington, D.C. Co-ops first arose in the city in the 1920s. Building slowed during the Great Depression, but their numbers expanded after World War II. Conversions expanded their numbers, and the model thrived and became a vital part of the city's fabric. Local historian Steve McKevitt tells the stories of the architecture and development of each District co-op with both historic and modern images.

Download or read book Housing in the District of Columbia written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia. Subcommittee on Business and Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers. S. 2331 and H.R. 10079, to provide for repair by D.C., at owner's expense, of buildings violating D.C. housing regulations, and to make tenants evicted from unsafe and unsanitary buildings in D.C. eligible for relocation payments. S. 3549, to amend provisions of the Act establishing a code of law for D.C., approved Mar. 3, 1901, relating to landlords and tenants. S. 3558, to require the publication of names of owners of rental property in D.C. which is used for residential purposes.

Download or read book Problems of Housing People in Washington D C written by United States. National Capital Planning Commission and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Rental Housing Conversion and Sale Council Act 3 204 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Low cost Housing in District of Columbia written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Housing Profile written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Race Class and Politics in the Cappuccino City written by Derek S. Hyra and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For long-time residents of Washington, DC’s Shaw/U Street, the neighborhood has become almost unrecognizable in recent years. Where the city’s most infamous open-air drug market once stood, a farmers’ market now sells grass-fed beef and homemade duck egg ravioli. On the corner where AM.PM carryout used to dish out soul food, a new establishment markets its $28 foie gras burger. Shaw is experiencing a dramatic transformation, from “ghetto” to “gilded ghetto,” where white newcomers are rehabbing homes, developing dog parks, and paving the way for a third wave coffee shop on nearly every block. Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City is an in-depth ethnography of this gilded ghetto. Derek S. Hyra captures here a quickly gentrifying space in which long-time black residents are joined, and variously displaced, by an influx of young, white, relatively wealthy, and/or gay professionals who, in part as a result of global economic forces and the recent development of central business districts, have returned to the cities earlier generations fled decades ago. As a result, America is witnessing the emergence of what Hyra calls “cappuccino cities.” A cappuccino has essentially the same ingredients as a cup of coffee with milk, but is considered upscale, and is double the price. In Hyra’s cappuccino city, the black inner-city neighborhood undergoes enormous transformations and becomes racially “lighter” and more expensive by the year.

Download or read book Low Cost Housing in D C written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia. Subcommittee on Housing and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers (79) S. 13, (79) S. 610.

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Download or read book Affordable Housing Preservation in Washington DC written by Kathryn Howell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-16 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Affordable Housing Preservation in Washington, DC uses the case of Washington, DC to examine the past, present, and future of subsidized and unsubsidized affordable housing through the lenses of history, governance, and affordable housing policy and planning. Affordable housing policy in the US has often been focused at the federal level where the laws and funding to build new affordable housing historically have been determined. However, as federal housing subsidies from the 1960s expire and federal funding continues to decline, local governments, tenants and advocates face the difficult challenge of trying to retain affordability amid increasing demand for housing in many American cities. Now, instead of amassing land, financing and sponsors, affordable housing stakeholders must understand the existing resident needs and have access to the market for affordable housing. Arguing for preservation as a way of acknowledging a basic right to the city, this book examines the ways that the broad range of stakeholders engage at the building and city levels. This book identifies the underlying challenges that enable or constrain preservation to demonstrate that effective preservation requires long-term relationships that engage residents, build trust and demonstrate a willingness to share power among residents, advocates and the government. It is of great interest to academics and students as well as policy makers and practitioners internationally in the fields of housing studies and policy, urban studies, social policy, sociology and political economy.

Download or read book District of Columbia Appropriations for 1995 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on District of Columbia Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 1052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Investigation of the Program of the National Capital Housing Authority written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Housing of Negroes in Washington D C written by William Henry Jones and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Investigation of the Program of the National Capital Housing Authority written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 1472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book D C Housing and Community Development Issues written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Financial Services. Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: