ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the Route 2 project in light of what has happened in other similar efforts elsewhere. The Milton-Park project residents like the Route 2 project residents included a broad mix of peoples. In the Route 2 project the property was never owned by the non-profit developer, Route 2 Community Housing Corporation, but was purchased directly by the cooperatives as a matter of choice. The Weller Way story varies from Route 2 because it involved the construction in the early 1980s of a 61 unit cooperative as replacement housing for people in a clearance project. In the case of Route 2 a shift in power relations was in process. In Route 2 the initial demand presented to the state was for the individual residents to be given the right to buy state-owned housing. Lawyers for Housing worked on creating the legal forms necessary to carry out the plan.
