[1] The movement consisted of various anti-poverty and community organizations in New York City,[2] including Metropolitan Council on Housing.
[3] It was an early example of New York City squatter activism, which strengthened in the 1980s, and helped publicize tenant rights.
[4] The movement primarily consisted of African-American and Latino activists,[5] who were opposed to the eviction of working-class and poor tenants from their homes.
[1] The squatter rights movement helped launch El Comité, a Puerto Rican left-wing organization.
[1] Some spaces claimed by Operation Move-In activists were transformed into low-income cooperatives in the 1980s, enacted through the Tenant Interim Lease Program.