Category: Dissertation
Handout – Resident Management Corporations for Justice For All Coalition
This handout relied on a study by HUD conducted in 1992 to create a starting place for community conversations about what resident management could look like. View &/or Download: RMC Pamphlet3
OpEd titled “Stop Sunnyside Yards! Reparative City Building Now!” in City Limits
Image Credit: Adi Talwar Caption: A 2017 Sunnyside Yards feasibility study proposed scenarios that included up to 24,000 units of housing—including up to 7,200 affordable units—in residential buildings as high as 69 stories, surrounded by as much as 52 acres of open space. Over the last year, the quasi-private, city-affiliated…
StoryMap of State-led Changes in Long Island City
“Change” has come to define Long Island City, and increasingly Western Queens, as new buildings – and land values – go up, and working-class tenants, small manufacturing and businesses, and independents artists are pushed out. The City and its agencies often describe these changes in relation to trends, as though…
OpEd titled “NYCHA’s NextGen Threatens More Harm than Hope” in City Limits
Image Credit: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office Caption: Mayor Bill de Blasio announces the city’s plan to renovate NYCHA apartments and preserve public housing in New York City at the NYCHA Hope Gardens Community Center in Brooklyn on Wednesday, December 12, 2018. In December 2018, the second and seemingly final installment…
Report titled “Recent Changes in LIC” for the Justice For All Coalition
Between 2000 and 2015, Long Island City experienced a 56% increase in housing units. This is faster than the average rate of growth across the city (7%) and the average for Queens County (3.3%). According to a recent study RENTCafé found that since 2010, Long Island City has seen the…
Precarious Perspectives: Examining the Production, Experience and Contestation of Precarity Through the Lens of Long Island City, NY.
Below is the Dissertation Topic Proposal submitted to my doctoral program, a necessary step in progressing to candidacy that occurs in advance of the dissertation proposal. The aim is to give a clear sense of how I am focusing and approaching the inquiry that will be my dissertation research. This…
United We Transform, Divided We Reproduce
Below I have unpacked the interrelations between the concepts of precarity and commoning with the intention of cultivating a framework for thinking about the political potential of precarity. This statement was prepared in preparation for my 2nd doctoral exam, and serves as the theoretical starting point for my dissertation, which…