To live in friendship, to be real neighbors

Second in a series of three pamphlets on affordable housing, To live in friendship, to be real neighbors is about limited equity co-ops as an affordable model for housing working and middle class families. This model is separate from market rate housing, and provides affordable homeownership in otherwise unaffordable places. 

I moved into the oldest limited equity coop in the US, the Amalgamated Houses in the Northwest Bronx, in summer of 2022. It’s printed letterpress and riso, and includes a reproduction of a rubbing I made of a stone plaque of a speech about housing given by Sidney Hillman, the president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union, which built the Amalgamated, as well as many other limited equity coops. The last image here shows the full text of his speech.