An article published in the recent issue of WorkingUSA, The Journal of Labor and Society explores the relationships between labor, community, affordable housing, and federal practices by focusing on a housing cooperative in New Haven, Conn. The Trade Union Plaza (TUP) was a nonprofit, labor-sponsored alternative to conventional public housing. More than thirty-five years ago, it began as a home to single Black mothers and active union members and has housed families for generations. Once described as an urban residential space "for working people by working people," the TUP is currently being transformed by the new owner into luxury homes called "University Village." Author Mandi Isaacs Jackson writes of the TUP in context of the myth of the "urban trade." Jackson challenges the notion that solutions to the crisis in affordable housing are unrelated to considerations of geography, design, and community, and that individual vouchers, available to income tenants are somehow equivalent in value to the homes and communities they replace."