Ours to Lose: When Squatters Became Homeowners in New York City
The Loisaida Inc. Center 710 East 9th Street, New York, NY, United StatesOurs to Lose tells the oral history of that movement through a close look at a diverse group of
Lower East Side squatters who occupied abandoned city-owned buildings in the 1980s, fought to
keep them for decades, and eventually began a long, complicated process to turn their illegal
occupancy into legal cooperative ownership.