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Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Operation_Move-In > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Operation_Move-In.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Move-In > Source revision: 1352901834 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Squatter rights movement Squatting in the United States International context Right to housing Universal Declaration of Human Rights International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Principles Sweat equity Homestead principle Adverse possession Gift Programs Urban homesteading 1202a Nuisance Abatement Program Solution frameworks Housing cooperative Mutual housing association Community land trust Housing and justice Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now Homes Not Jails Kensington Welfare Rights Union Mad Housers National Union of the Homeless Occupy the Farm Operation Move-In Take Back the Land Urban Homesteading Assistance Board Notable squats ABC No Rio Bullet Space Dos Blockos C-Squat Dignity Village Gowanus Batcave Slab City Umbrella House Umoja Village v t e **Operation Move-In** was a housing and [squatter](/source/Squatting) rights movement of the 1970s.[1] The movement consisted of various [anti-poverty](/source/Poverty_reduction) and [community organizations](/source/Community_organizing) in [New York City](/source/New_York_City),[2] including [Metropolitan Council on Housing](/source/Metropolitan_Council_on_Housing).[3] It was an early example of New York City squatter [activism](/source/Activism), which strengthened in the 1980s, and helped publicize tenant rights.[4] 1970 Operation Move-In Poster The movement primarily consisted of [African-American](/source/African_Americans) and [Latino](/source/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans) activists,[5] who were opposed to the eviction of [working-class](/source/Working_class) and poor tenants from their homes. These removals were rooted in efforts to [gentrify](/source/Gentrification) neighborhoods, in a collaborative effort between city agencies, real estate developers, and banks.[1] In response, the movement organized a coordinated take-over of nine vacant buildings in the summer of 1970. The buildings were slated for demolition, and they were located in [Ninth Avenue (Columbus Avenue)](/source/Ninth_Avenue_(Manhattan)) and West 80th Street in [Manhattan](/source/Manhattan). This was followed by the coordinated take-over of buildings in [Morningside Heights](/source/Morningside_Heights%2C_Manhattan), which had been reserved for private development. The activists claimed that they had the right to squat in the properties, and that they could better identify how to use the spaces than government or business entities.[6] They also demanded that new, high-rise buildings designate more units to low-income residents.[1] The squatter rights movement helped launch [El Comité](/source/El_Comit%C3%A9-MINP), a Puerto Rican left-wing organization.[1] Some spaces claimed by Operation Move-In activists were transformed into low-income cooperatives in the 1980s, enacted through the Tenant Interim Lease Program.[6] ## See also - [Dos Blockos](/source/Dos_Blockos) ## References 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-:1_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-:1_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-:1_1-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-:1_1-3) Muzio, Rose (2009). ["The Struggle against "Urban Renewal" in Manhattan's Upper West Side and the Emergence of El Comité"](https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-8/el-comite-history.pdf) (PDF). *Centro Journal*. **XXI**: 110–141 – via Marxists.org. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Asbury, Edith Evans (1970-07-22). ["Squatter Movement Grows As Housing Protest Tactic"](https://www.nytimes.com/1970/07/22/archives/squatter-movement-grows-as-housing-protest-tactic.html). *The New York Times*. [ISSN](/source/ISSN_(identifier)) [0362-4331](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0362-4331). Retrieved 2019-11-14. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Grassroots Political Action of the '70s and '80s"](https://www.metcouncilonhousing.org/about-us/history/grassroots-political-action-of-the-70s-and-80s/). *Met Council on Housing*. Retrieved 2019-11-14. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Madden, David; Marcuse, Peter (2016-11-22). ["No Rent for Rats"](https://jacobinmag.com/2016/11/housing-new-york-rent-tenant-rights). *jacobinmag.com*. Retrieved 2019-11-14. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Sisson, Patrick (2017-05-02). ["A history of squatting"](https://web.archive.org/web/20181001235739/https://www.curbed.com/2017/5/2/15517922/squatting-housing-rights-lower-east-side). *Curbed*. Archived from [the original](https://www.curbed.com/2017/5/2/15517922/squatting-housing-rights-lower-east-side) on 2018-10-01. Retrieved 2019-11-14. 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-:0_6-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-:0_6-1) Mironova, Oksana (2015-06-10). [""The scythe of progress must move northward": Urban Renewal on the Upper West Side"](https://urbanomnibus.net/2015/06/the-scythe-of-progress-must-move-northward-urban-renewal-on-the-upper-west-side/). *Urban Omnibus*. Retrieved 2019-11-14. v t e Housing rights in New York Government agencies NYC Department of Buildings NYC Department of Homeless Services NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development NYC Housing Authority NYC Housing Authority Police Department NYC Loft Board NYPD Housing Bureau New York State Legislature Legislation New York State Rent regulation in New York Callahan v. Carey Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019 Mitchell–Lama Housing Program New York State Tenement House Act (Old Law Tenement, New Law Tenement) New York City Multiple Dwelling Law 421-a tax exemption 1982 Loft Law 2009 Loft Law Amendment Article 7A Local Law 45 of 1976 Local Law 97 of 2019 Self-Certification Uniform Land Use Review Procedure Local Law 18 of 2022 Non-/ governmental organizations Ali Forney Center Asian Americans for Equality Association for a Better New York Breaking Ground The Bowery Mission Citizens Housing and Planning Council Crown Heights Tenant Union Homes for the Homeless Housing Works Metropolitan Council on Housing Movement for Justice in el Barrio Open New York Palladia (social services organization) Picture the Homeless Real Estate Board of New York Rent Is Too Damn High Party Sanctuary for Families Urban Homesteading Assistance Board Squatting and homesteading 519 East 11th Street ABC No Rio C-Squat Charas/El Bohio Dos Blockos Freedom Tunnel Gowanus Batcave Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space Operation Move-In (1970s) Umbrella House Historical events 1839-1845 Anti-Rent War 1904 New York City Rent Strike 1907 New York City Rent Strike 1918-20 New York City rent strikes 1931–1933 New York City rent strikes Operation Move-In (1970s) Housing rights activists Frances Goldin Florence M. Rice Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes Jesse Gray Joseph DeFilippis Mitch Snyder Pauline Newman Rosanne Haggerty Stanley M. Isaacs Media City Limits Dark Days (film) How the Other Half Lives Kill City: Lower East Side Squatters 1992–2000 One-Third of a Nation Project Lives Rent (musical) The City We Became See also Homelessness in New York Involuntary hospitalization of Joyce Brown New York City housing shortage --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Operation Move-In](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Move-In) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Move-In?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.