"The Seward Park Housing cooperative demonstrates what people can do for themselves when they work together. Without cooperation this development would not have been built, the old tenements would have remained. It has taken a half of a life time to rid the city of only 32 acres of slums in this section and to provide good housing for nearly twenty thousand people. All of these people are consumers; they share many other common needs. It is our hope that from cooperative ventures they will learn to apply the same techniques of self-help not only to housing but to meet their other needs."
from 'The Story of the Seward Park Cooperative', Abraham E. Kazan, 1961
