A right to housing : foundation for a new social agenda

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A right to housing : foundation for a new social agenda

edited by Rachel G. Bratt, Michael E. Stone, and Chester Hartman

Temple University Press, 2006

  • :cloth
  • :pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • Why a right to housing is needed and makes sense : editors' introduction
  • The economic environment of housing : income inequality and insecurity / Chris Tilly
  • Housing affordability : one-third of a nation shelter-poor / Michael E. Stone
  • Segregation and discrimination in housing / Nancy A. Denton
  • Pernicious problems of housing finance / Michael E. Stone
  • Federal housing subsidies : who benefits and why? / Peter Dreier
  • The permanent housing crisis : the failures of conservatism and the limitations of liberalism / Peter Marcuse, W. Dennis Keating
  • Federally-assisted housing in conflict : privatization or preservation? / Emily Paradise Achtenberg
  • Privatizing rural rental housing / Robert Wiener
  • The case for a right to housing / Chester Hartman
  • The role of the courts and a right to housing / David B. Bryson
  • Housing organizing for the long haul : building on experience / Larry Lamar Yates
  • Social ownership / Michael E. Stone
  • Social financing / Michael Swack
  • The elderly and a right to housing / Jon Pynoos, Christy M. Nishita
  • Opening doors : what a right to housing means for women / Susan Saegert, Heléne Clark
  • Responses to homelessness : past policies, future directions, and a right to housing / Rob Rosenthal, Maria Foscarinis
  • Community development corporations : challenges in supporting a right to housing / Rachel G. Bratt
  • Old and new challenges facing rural housing nonprofits / Robert Wiener
  • Between devolution and the deep blue sea : what's a city or state to do? / John Emmeus Davis
  • Housing and economic security / Rachel G. Bratt

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Presents a powerful and compelling analysis of the persistent inability of the United States to meet the housing needs of its people

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