During the 1980s, there were hundreds of abandoned houses in New York that their owners were unable to maintain. They were taken over by squatters, who used their own hands to build homes, but also a utopian community, based on anti-capitalist principles. Archival footage and testimonies map their story, until their forced eviction in the 1990s. “Survival without rent: This is a book to help people take back homes that have been taken away from them by government and business.”
Elana Meyers
Director
Katie Heiserman
Director
Night Always Comes60%
House of Sand and Fog71%
Herself67%
Poor Cow63%
The Mortuary Collection67%
Vivarium60%
Wake Up67%
The Purge62%
The Road70%
Monkey Man68%
The First Purge60%
Nowhere to Run65%
The Last Survivors60%
District 974%
After the Dark59%
The Mosquito Coast63%
The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz78%
A Home of Our Own70%
Fun with Dick and Jane62%
Stuart: A Life Backwards74%
