New Jersey, home

For all his money and power, Donald Trump couldn’t force a widow from her New Jersey home back in the 1990s. Trump wanted to buy Vera Coking’s house in Atlantic City and tear it down in order to create limousine parking for his expanding casino. But Coking didn’t want to move from or sell the three-story home where she’d lived since the 1960s with her late husband and their children. Her eventual victory against the seemingly unstoppable real estate mogul, and now presidential primary candidate, is a triumphant example of a holdout, an act of resilience wherein people refuse to move or give up their physical space in the world, no matter the cost.

extrait de Holdouts: The Solitary Resisters of Real Estate
by Allison Meier on April 8, 2016

Vera Coking’s Atlantic City, New Jersey, home, which Donald Trump attempted to acquire through eminent domain to build limousine parking for his casino 

photo by Jack Boucher/Historic American Buildings Survey