Sweat equity Homesteading- Work on housing find one particular case in the LES: we should contact Margarita Lopez (case study) Look also: Housing co-ops in existence - Identify buildings (city owned) (Become association do sweat equity, Get to licensed to bring to code, Group purchases it and forms co-op) Long history/story of how the building came to be. Formerly a building over run by drug addicts. Local residents rehabbed the building.