Archives, Displacement and the Struggle for Housing Rights

Join us for a conversation with Lynn Lewis, Maggie Schreiner, and Cynthia Tobar as they discuss the role of the archive in documenting the housing crisis. This discussion will be moderated by Stephanie Neel, archivist at the Margaret Morton Archive.

Space is limited. Please RSVP to reserve your spot.

Physical space of the Interference Archive is ADA compliant.

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This panel discussion is part of a series of public programs around the exhibition Through Padlocks, Behind Barricades: Margaret Morton's Glass House and the Squats of the Lower East Side.

Through Padlocks, Behind Barricades explores the squatter movement on New York’s Lower East Side (Loisaida) in the 1990s. It features Margaret Morton’s photographs of life in Glass House, an abandoned glass factory at the corner of Avenue D and East 10th Street. Several dozen squatters made the building their home for sixteen months, until police evicted them in the winter of 1994. The exhibition presents Morton’s in-depth portrait of one squat, with an array of printed materials exploring the debates that arose over squatters’ rights.

On view at Interference Archive from October 17, 2025 through January 5, 2026.