A Right to Housing

by Bratt, Rachel G.; Stone, Michael E.; Hartman, Chester

• ISBN13: 9781592134311
• ISBN10: 1592134319
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-02-28
• Publisher: Temple Univ Pr

Summary

How can we explain the persistent inability of the United States to meet the housing needs of a large portion of its people? What can we do about the problem? In this important new work leading progressive housing activists and thinkers examine the state of housing, the housed, and housing policy in the United States and then provide a comprehensive and detailed program for solving the problem, under the goal of a Right to Housing.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	viii
Why a Right to Housing Is Needed and Makes Sense: Editors' Introduction	1	(19)
The Economic Environment of Housing: Income Inequality and Insecurity	20	(18)
Chris Tilly
Housing Affordability: One-Third of a Nation Shelter-Poor	38	(23)
Michael E. Stone
Segregation and Discrimination in Housing	61	(21)
Nancy A. Denton
Pernicious Problems of Housing Finance	82	(23)
Michael E. Stone
Federal Housing Subsidies: Who Benefits and Why?	105	(34)
Peter Dreier
The Permanent Housing Crisis: The Failures of Conservatism and the Limitations of Liberalism	139	(24)
Peter Marcuse
W. Dennis Keating
Federally-Assisted Housing in Conflict: Privatization or Preservation?	163	(14)
Emily Paradise Achtenberg
Privatizing Rural Rental Housing	171	(6)
Robert Wiener
The Case for a Right to Housing	177	(16)
Chester Hartman
The Role of the Courts and a Right to Housing	193	(20)
David B. Bryson
Housing Organizing for the Long Haul: Building on Experience	213	(27)
Larry Lamar Yates
Social Ownership	240	(21)
Michael E. Stone
Social Financing	261	(18)
Michael Swack
The Elderly and a Right to Housing	279	(17)
Jon Pynoos
Christy M. Nishita
Opening Doors: What a Right to Housing Means for Women	296	(20)
Susan Saegert
Helene Clark
Responses to Homelessness: Past Policies, Future Directions, and a Right to Housing	316	(24)
Rob Rosenthal
Maria Foscarinis
Community Development Corporations: Challenges in Supporting a Right to Housing	340	(24)
Rachel G. Bratt
Old and New Challenges Facing Rural Housing Nonprofits	360	(4)
Robert Wiener
Between Devolution and the Deep Blue Sea: What's a City or State to Do?	364	(35)
John Emmeus Davis
Housing and Economic Security	399	(28)
Rachel G. Bratt
About the Contributors	427	(4)
Index	431