Operation Homestead: liberating housing in 1990s Seattle

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Mon, 08/03/2015 - 12:00am
90s Seattle activists created housing for the homeless by claiming it: listen to learn how

Desiree Hellegers interviews Seattle housing justice activists Ginger Segel and Bob Kubiniec about their work in the 1980s and 1990s with  Operation Homestead, breaking into and liberating abandoned or unused buildings for people to live in.

image by Dana Schuerholz via Radical Seattle Remembers

 

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