General Resources and Reading
Robleno, S. Co-owning with friends in New York, New York Times, 2014
Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, Boston, Building Neighborhoods Block by Block: Ten Lessons We’ve Learned on Dudley Street
Tom Wetzel’s Blog Uncanny
Jessica Gordon Nembhard, Collective Courage:A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice , Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014
Tom Angotti, New York For Sale: Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate, MIT Press, 2011
Tom Angotti, Five Things You Can Do
Tom Angotti and Sylvia Morse, Keeping The Public In Public Housing
Rosalyn Deutsche, Evictions: Art and Spatial Politics, MIT Press, 1996
Staughton Lynd, Accompanying: Pathways to Social Change
Naturally Occurring Cultural District Work Group, Strategies from NOCD, Policy Brief from NOCD:
Picture The Homeless, Banking on Vacancy
The Value of Land: how Community Land Trusts Maintain Housing Affordability
Sharon Zukin, Loft Living, Audio Book
Placemaking and place-sustaining Art Projects
The Up Truck, Boston
Fairmount Cultural Corridor, Boston
Worker Cooperatives
US Federation of Worker Cooperatives
Smokey Mountain Holler’s Cooperative
http://www.grittv.org “Collective Courage: A Conversation on Cooperation in African-American
Communities”
Places
San Francisco Community Land Trust
Twin Oaks Community, NYC Point A Project
Organizations
National Community Land Trust Network
How to research an “Odd Lot”
1. Find a property (especially one that looks abandoned) and decide to figure out who owns it, how much they got it for, and if they’ve paid off the mortgage.
2. Translate the address to Block and Lot # by going to: http://webapps.nyc.gov:8084/CICS/fin1/find001i
3. Type in the Block and Lot in ACRIS to get the property records: http://a836-acris.nyc.gov/DS/DocumentSearch/BBL
4. See the name of the current owner, and the previous owner, and mortgage status.
5. Google the owners, to get a full picture of the context.
6. Find Out Who has Spilled on that lot (Oasis)
