Carving Out the Commons: Tenant Organizing and Housing Cooperatives in Washington, D.C.

Carving Out the Commonstheorizes the practice of urban commoning in Washington, D.C., through an investigation of the city’s limitedequity housing cooperatives. It asks whether a commons can work in a city where land and resources are scarce and how strangers who may not share a past or future come together to create commonly held spaces in the midst of capitalism.