Amalgamated Housing Cooperative, originally the Amalgamated Cooperative Apartment House, is a pioneering

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limited-equity

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complex organized under the provisions of the ''Private Housing Finance'' (PVH) law, article IV (unlike the Mitchell-Lama housing under PVH, art. II) and originally built from 1927 to 1930 in

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. The

Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (ACWA) was a United States labor union known for its support for "social unionism" and progressive political causes. Led by Sidney Hillman for its first thirty years, it helped found the Congress of Ind ...

, headed by

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and prodded by Cooperative housing founder Abraham E. Kazan, funded and organized the construction of a community of

affordable housing Affordable housing is housing which is deemed affordable to those with a household income at or below the median as rated by the national government or a local government by a recognized housing affordability index. Most of the literature on affo ...

for the working class. It was designed by the architectural team that included

Herman Jessor Herman J. Jessor (June 15, 1894 – April 8, 1990) was an American architect who helped build more than 40,000 units of cooperative housing in New York City. He, along with Abraham Kazan, was a driving force of the cooperative housing movement in ...

, the man who ultimately designed the bulk of the housing cooperatives that went up between 1930–1975. It was the first cooperative housing complex in the United States founded under the limited equity rules. The undertaking was such a success, that it spawned over 40,000 more units to crop up around New York City.Schuman, Tony. "Labor and Housing in New York City - Architect Herman Jessor and the Cooperative Housing Movement"

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Amalgamated Housing grew from original 300 to almost 1500 apartments by 2007. The newest tower building was completed in 1971.

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Robie, Alexis. "Lex's Folly: Union Forever", November 17, 2004 10:30 AM

Hans, Alexandra Vozick. "Amalgamated Housing: The History of a Pioneer Co-Operative 1927 Bronx, New York"
LesOnline.com, March 2006 - July 2007
''At Home in Utopia'' documentary
on housing cooperatives in the Bronx highlighting the Coops with footage of the Amalgamated; broadcast on PBS, 2009
MCNY Blog: New York Stories
Affordable New York: Amalgamated Housing Cooperative * https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/17/realestate/van-cortlandt-village-the-bronx-affordable-homes-and-price-of-place.html New York Times]: Affordability, and Pride of Place * https://www.placematters.net/node/995 Place Matters]: Amalgamated Housing Cooperative Condominiums and housing cooperatives in the Bronx Kingsbridge Heights, Bronx Residential buildings in the Bronx {{Bronx-struct-stub

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