Metropolitics

Crisis Makes Heroes: Affordable Housing in New York City During and After a “Decade of Fire”

Susan Saegert — 2019-07-02T05:10:00Z

Susan Saegert discusses the memoirs of two hard-fighting Bronx housing advocates, active at a particularly turbulent time in the borough's—and New York City's—history.
Carol Lamberg (2018) in Neighborhood Success Stories and Harry DeRienzo (2008) in The Concept of Community: Lessons from the Bronx begin their main narratives in the Bronx at about the same time, around New York City's near bankruptcy and the Daily News headline “Ford to City: Drop Dead.” Each tells dramatic personal stories

- Reviews / New York, Bronx, affordable housing, housing

Special Feature: Whose Bronx?

Aly Hassell & Susan Saegert — 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z

As New York City's overheated real-estate market begins to affect the Bronx, researchers and memoirists are rejecting received wisdom about the borough's crisis-ridden past and warning of new threats to the stability of its working-class neighborhoods.
In this special review feature, Aly Hassell comments on the historical documentary Decade of Fire, while Susan Saegert discusses the memoirs of two hard-fighting Bronx housing advocates. Whose Bronx?: Decade of Fire Looks Back at a Complicated

- Reviews / New York, Bronx, hide

Interrupting Inequality: Crisis and Opportunity in Low-Income Housing Policy

Susan Saegert — 2015-01-26T05:50:00Z

Inequality in the United States is deeply rooted in issues of property ownership, wealth, race and class. Lower-income and minority households in the United States are constantly challenged in their struggle for decent stable housing by unaffordability and insecurity, exacerbated by the twin foreclosure and financial crises and its aftermath. Community land trusts seem to offer an alternative that can interrupt the cycle of crisis for both households and communities.
Inequality, property and

- Debates / homeownership, financial crisis, housing, housing policy, inequalities, United States, land, New York, crisis, rental, foreclosure, housing crisis, community land trusts, rent, rental housing, affordable housing