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Community Control of Public Housing
Author(s)

Ari McCaskill; Peter Blackmer

Publisher

Fernwood Publishing

Publication Year

2025

ISBN: 9781773637273-03

Categories:

  • Sociology & Anthropology → Activism & Social Movements
  • Sociology & Anthropology → Class, Inequality & Oppression
  • Sociology & Anthropology → Community Development
  • Sociology & Anthropology → Housing & Urban Development
  • Sociology & Anthropology → Racism → Institutional
  • Political Science → Urban Issues

 
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Community Control of Public Housing

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From: Dispatches from the Threshold

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In this chapter, the authors trace the 1970 to 1974 rent strike at Stella Wright Homes in Newark, New Jersey, where leaders like Toby Henry and Rev. Thomas Comerford won tenant management of their public housing project.

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Contributors

Ari McCaskill

Rae Baker is a critical geographer, policy practitioner, and researcher focused on community-led inquiry and action. Their research and activism address housing inequality, land rights, and racial injustice and surveillance technology. They are an assistant professor at the University of Cincinnati in the Research for Social Change and Education and Community Action Research graduate programs. They contribute community-driven research to Urban Praxis Workshop.

Peter Blackmer

Alexander Ferrer is a PhD student and movement-based researcher in Los Angeles. He works with Strategic Actions for a Just Economy, the Debt Collective, and the UCLA Institute on Inequality and Democracy.

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Canada Council for the Arts
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Nova Scotia

This project is funded in part by the Government of Canada. Ce projet est financé en partie par le gouvernement du Canada.

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