Hold decades of wisdom in your hands with the long-anticipated how-to book, Takeover! A Human Rights Approach to Housing.
Cheri Honkala and the entire Poor People’s Army are finally sharing their secrets for reclaiming abandoned government-owned housing, making it safe, and helping homeless families move in. Takeover homes are a survival tactic that provide families with emergency housing on their own terms. Takeovers are also living political protests that condemn the oppression of those who fall through the gaping holes in government services. After thirty years of trial-and-error in Philadelphia and throughout the US, the Poor People’s Army is ready to share their expertise with people all over the world who are asserting their human right to housing – without waiting for a rigged system to save them.