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Urban homesteading
Résumé
Urban homesteading can refer to several different things: programs by local, state, and federal agencies in the USA who work to help get people into city homes, squatting, practicing urban agriculture, or practicing sustainable living techniques.
Urban American cities, such as New York City, have used policies of urban homesteading to encourage citizens to occupy and rebuild vacant properties. Policies by the U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development allowed for federally owned properties to be sold to homesteaders for nominal sums as low as $1, financed otherwise by the state, and inspected after a one-year period. Homesteading is practiced in Detroit, but as of 2013 zoning laws prohibit such activity despite talk to encourage more urban agriculture and combat the shrinking population.
While such policies have provided affordable housing for homeowners entering an area, homesteading has been linked with gentrification since the 1970s, especially in neighborhoods such as the Lower East Side of New York City.
According to UC-Davis, "an urban homestead is a household that produces a significant part of the food, including produce and livestock, consumed by its residents. This is typically associated with residents’ desire to live in a more environmentally conscious manner."
Aspects of urban homesteading include
Resource reduction: using solar/alternative energy sources, harvesting rainwater, using greywater, line drying clothes, using alternative transportation such as bicycles and buses
Raising animals, including chickens, goats, rabbits, fish, worms, and/or bees
Edible landscaping: growing fruit, vegetables, culinary and medicinal plants, converting lawns into gardens
Self-sufficient living: re-using, repairing, and recycling items; homemade products
Food preservation including canning, drying, freezing, cheese-making, and fermenting
Community food-sourcing such as foraging, gleaning, and trading
Natural building
Composting
Urban homesteading practices can conflict with current city zoning regulations and homeowner’s association by-laws.
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