In 1959 New York City announced a \u201cslum clearance plan\u201d by Robert Moses that would displace 2,400 working class and immigrant families, and dozens of businesses, from the Cooper Square section of Manhattan\u2019s Lower East Side. Guided by the belief that urban renewal should benefit – not displace – residents, a working mother named Frances Goldin and her neighbors formed the Cooper Square Committee (CSC) and launched a campaign to save the neighborhood. Over five decades they fought politicians, developers, white flight, government abandonment, blight, violence, arson, drugs, and gentrification – cyclical forces that have destroyed so many working class neighborhoods across the US. Through tenacious organizing and hundreds of community meetings, they not only held their ground but also developed a vision of community control. Fifty three years later, they established the state\u2019s first community land trust – a diverse, permanently affordable neighborhood in the heart of the \u201creal estate capital of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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