Does the middle class have rights to the city? Contingent rights and the struggle to inhabit Stuyvesant Town, New YorkFootnote¹

¹This paper draws upon a book on the social history of Stuyvesant Town under contract with NYU Press, Trouble in Urban Paradise—Losing the Middle Class to Neoliberal Housing Policy.

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