Power and Probity in a DC Cooperative

Download or read book Power and Probity in a DC Cooperative written by John C. Hirsh and published by New Academia Publishing/VELLUM Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an account of the ways in which an inner-city community had the bad luck to find itself situated on suddenly valuable land, sought to contend with its changed circumstances, and both failed and succeeded in its designs. This book recounts in detail the negotiations, internal and external struggles, and the outcome of an attempt by HUD, the City of Washington, and several developers to acquire a Washington, D.C. apartment complex known as Sursum Corda. The book begins with an account of a particularly horrific murder that took place in Sursum Corda in 2004, and shows how it was used, in the press and elsewhere, to attack the Community as a whole, and to use it as a reason that the Community should be disbanded, and the land on which it stood be dedicated to other purposes.