Squatters of the Lower East Side
99% Invisible
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New York City's New Deal With the Squatters
In 2002, the city sold 11 buildings to UHAB for $1 each. The nonprofit began working with squatters to turn their buildings from squats into legal, cooperatively owned apartments. Some of the more unique and hand-built elements of people's apartments had to go. "If we're not going to be anarchists anymore, we might as well be capitalists," one man said.
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