BREAK AND ENTER aka SQUATTERS / ROMPIENDO PUERTAS (Newsreel #62) (1971)
Directed by Newsreel
42 minutes
This film captures the militant antecedents to the housing reclamation movement in New York City. In 1970, several hundred Puerto Rican and Dominican families reclaimed housing left vacant by the city. They pulled the boards off the doors, cleaned and repaired the buildings, and moved in. BREAK AND ENTER documents the activist work of Operation Move-In and the city's attempts to displace the families.