Self Built House

Setor sul 

Objeto de pesquisa

Um dos principais conflitos presentes na área é a ocupação irregular de terras por famílias de baixa renda em busca de moradia. Essas ocupações têm gerado disputas entre os ocupantes, que buscam legitimar sua permanência no local, e as autoridades responsáveis pela gestão e preservação da área. 

As a long-standing homeowner here, there is the desire to live in a "perfect" neighbourhood.

As an older couple living our dream, we do find that our version of "utopia" has been a bit overshadowed by the changing neighbourhood

As the current homeowners, we're pretty content with the neighbourhood but don't love the reputation of the Rock Bay shelter.

This house used to house one family. Now it offers housing (eight rooms) to eight different people and there is potential for more subletting if they can acquire a permit for converting the stand-alone garage.

We are transplants from Ontario, as we both just retired. So, we love the quaintness of the neighbourhood.

I grew up in the house I live in now... recall how back then everybody knew each other. Nowadays, people act like they don't want to know their neighbours. The roads used to be gravel.

The current homeowners bought their home - a bungalow, averaging 2500 square feet - in 1976 for $32,000. Flash forward 45 years and the people next door bought their home, which is approximately the same size, for $650,000. 

Fiskerihavnen er det mest fantastiske skjulte lille samfund, placeret få kilometer fra københavns centrum. En lille landsby af hjemmebyggede containerhuse, skurvogne og lignede, hvori der udelukkende bor de få aktive industrifiskere tilbage i københavn.Oplev den fantastiske stemning når fiskekutterne trækker mod havnen i løbet af eftermiddagen med dagens fangst, en god samtale med en af de lokale, eller bare et kig på et af de mange fantastiske hjemmebyggede huse.

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.