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An interview on KPFA’s Guns and Butter with journalist, squatter, and housing activist Frank Morales. Morales tells of the direct action campaigns for housing in the South Bronx and lower east side of Manhattan in the late 1970s. His analysis is top-notch as he discusses the banks’ redlining of loans to certain neighborhoods, government reports outlining the deconcentration of the urban poor from inner-cities as a counter-insurgency strategy, and the creation of the modern shelter system. An excellent look into the causes of endless housing crises as well as means of resistance and creation in the face of such attacks on the basic right to shelter.
