Does anyone know of any examples of this? Where can I read about them?
I'm particularly interested in examples of this in countries without much of a welfare state.
Apr 21 2014 17:11
Apr 22 2014 09:04
Apr 22 2014 09:48
what comes to my mind are the self-organized smaller housing cooperatives in Uruguay which often started by squatting a plot of urban wasteland ... or the recent emergence of urban allotment in some Cuban cities where urban - often unemployed or underemployed - people was able to claim e.g. in La Habana relatively large stretches of land which was either unused or destined for development, the Cuban state was not very happy about that but caved in
Apr 23 2014 03:14
there are many semi-squats of long term homeless/unemployed in the US west. Seems more often functional mentally ill, addicted, but not necessarily.
Insane Dialectical Posse wrote a good report about the central valley of California:
http://turbulence.org.uk/turbulence-5/california/
In Portland this is established and has wooden houses, etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dignity_Village
Partial list
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tent_cities_in_the_United_States
Apr 26 2014 04:43
Thanks to all
Can comment on articles and discussions
I should have mentioned - it can be mutual aid among unemployed people internally, or (better yet) mutual aid between employed and unemployed workers. Second is better, either is fine.
But the point is that there isn't reliance on the welfare state, so *not* anything that's trying to get more resources from government for the unemployed.