A right to housing : foundation for a new social agenda / / edited by Rachel G. Bratt, Michael E. Stone, and Chester Hartman.

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Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
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Physical Description:vi, 440 p. :; ill.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • BOX: 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 Bynoos, Christy M. Nishita
  • Opening doors: what a right to housing means for women / Susan Saegert, Helene 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
  • BOX: 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 David
  • Housing and economic security / Rachel G. Bratt.