Apr 20 2023 65 mins 2
New York’s Roosevelt Island was imagined as an idyllic, multi-racial, multi-income community, developed as part of the social housing movement in the 60s and 70s. But by the 1980s, socially-minded investments in housing were overtaken by neoliberal policy. We talk to current-day and displaced residents to see how this change affected them, while looking back from the point of divergence to find the decisions that created and dismantled housing as a human right.
- Reporters: Jameela Hammond @JameelaHammond, Melissa Fundira @MFundira
- Interviewees:
- Ted Liebman, FAIA; Twitter: @liebman_t
- Yonah Freemark, Ph.D.; Twitter: @yfreemark
- Rosemary Ndubuizu, Ph.D. Affiliate Twitter: @GU_AFAM
- Kim Phillips-Fein, Ph.D.; Affiliate Twitter: @CUHistoryDept
- Marion Ntiru @marionntiru
- Residents past and present
- Sasha Ross *Note: resident
- Lionel Fundira *Note: resident
- Courtney Francis *Note: previous resident
- Barbara Spiegel *Note: resident
- Rita Ombele *Note:previous resident
- Nikki Leopold *Note: resident
- Marie Orraca *Note: resident
- Eneaqua Lewis *Note: resident
- Ludi Nsimba *Note: resident
- Morgan Elinson *Note: former resident
- Judith Berdy *Note: resident
- Andrew Kerr *Note: former resident
