On May 30, 1995, New York's mayor Rudy Giuliani sent an armored tank down East 13th Street to evict a community of squatters and arrest dozens of protestors. Survival Without Rent follows a vibrant community as they illegally take over abandoned buildings in the 1980s and form a haven for artists and activists. Told with rare archival footage and oral histories, the film provides a glimpse into this anti-capitalist world on New York's old Lower East Side. Survival Without Rent was supported through the Shorts In-Session collaboration with American Documentary and UFO