Anamika Jain (GGFUP, 2017, Location: New York City)
My research is about alternative land and housing models, and such models are built on the foundational principles of the right to the city, such as participatory democracy and, in [David] Harvey’s own words, “democratic control over the production and utilization of the surplus”. Some of the models (“urban groups”) I am looking at include Community Land Trusts, Limited Equity Cooperatives, Tenants Unions and Socialist Cooperatives. What I have discovered through interviews and literature is that these groups exist primarily as a product of collaborations with other groups – that is, they would not exist without the bridges built with like minded groups to demand their shared right to the city.