Jose Lopez
Community Organizer
Jose Lopez, an organizer at Make the Road New York, a community advocacy organization in the neighborhood, shares his experience of seeking justice for Latino working class tenants in Bushwick who are being displaced. He talks about the parallels between artists and long-term Latino residents and explores how these groups can join forces to fight for fair housing in the area, while providing some alternative frameworks for future action.
Interview details
Interview Title:
Interview with Jose Lopez
Interviewee:
Jose Lopez
Affiliation:
Make the Road New York
Job Title:
Community organizer
Interviewer:
Cynthia Tobar
Interview Date:
August 26, 2015
Length:
27:51
Resource Type:
Recording, video
Format:
Digital, mp4
Subject:
Community organizing, Affordable housing, Gentrification , Activism, Displacement
Rights:
Cities for People, Not for Profit: Gentrification and Housing Justice in Bushwick by Cynthia Tobar is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. This interview is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. You may reproduce it for non-commercial use if you attribute the source: Cities for People, Not for Profit.
Digital ID:
Lopez_Jose_mp4
Reference URL:
http://citiesforppl.org/interviews/jose-lopez-interview
Bibliographic Citation:
"Interview with Jose Lopez," in Cities for People, Not for Profit: Gentrification and Housing Justice in Bushwick, http://citiesforppl.org/interview/jose-lopez-interview