The Hood Takeover: New York City’s Housing and Gentrification Organizing in the Face of Non-Profit Surveillance
Location
Science Center, A254
Document Type
Presentation
Start Date
4-25-2014 4:00 PM
End Date
4-25-2014 5:15 PM
Abstract
This project examines gentrification and the struggle for immigrant housing rights through the work of two community organizations: Make the Road New York and CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities. I also analyze the structural limitations of the “Non-Profit Industrial Complex” (NIC), within which neoliberal policies hold non-profit organizations accountable to their funding sources, rather than their communities. How can these organizations navigate and strategize for the systematic empowerment of marginalized communities while working with neoliberal funding? I specifically analyze Make the Road and CAAAV’s methods of working around the limitations of the NIC and seek to understand how gentrification is displacing low-income Latino and Asian communities within New York City.
Recommended Citation
Cortes, Katrina, "The Hood Takeover: New York City’s Housing and Gentrification Organizing in the Face of Non-Profit Surveillance" (04/25/14). Senior Symposium. 42.
https://digitalcommons.oberlin.edu/seniorsymp/2014/presentations/42
Major
Comparative American Studies
Advisor(s)
Pablo Mitchell, Comparative American Studies; History
Project Mentor(s)
Gina Perez, Comparative American Studies
April 2014
The Hood Takeover: New York City’s Housing and Gentrification Organizing in the Face of Non-Profit Surveillance
Science Center, A254
This project examines gentrification and the struggle for immigrant housing rights through the work of two community organizations: Make the Road New York and CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities. I also analyze the structural limitations of the “Non-Profit Industrial Complex” (NIC), within which neoliberal policies hold non-profit organizations accountable to their funding sources, rather than their communities. How can these organizations navigate and strategize for the systematic empowerment of marginalized communities while working with neoliberal funding? I specifically analyze Make the Road and CAAAV’s methods of working around the limitations of the NIC and seek to understand how gentrification is displacing low-income Latino and Asian communities within New York City.
Notes
Session III, Panel 14 - Commerce, Action, Identity: Studies in the Politics of Economics
Moderator: James Dobbins, James H. Fairchild Professor of East Asian Studies