New Book: A Right to Housing: Foundation for a New Social Agenda

[colist at comm-org.wisc.edu]

From: Larry Yates <lamaryates at igc.org>


A Right to Housing: Foundation for a New Social Agenda, edited by Rachel 
G. Bratt, Michael E. Stone and Chester Hartman, is about to be published 
by Temple Press.

The chapters include:

Why a Right to Housing is Needed and Makes Sense:Editors’Introduction
1.The Economic Environment of Housing: Income Inequality and Insecurity 
—Chris Tilly
2.Housing Affordability: One-Third of a Nation Shelter-Poor—Michael E. Stone
3.Segregation and Discrimination in Housing—Nancy A. Denton
4.Pernicious Problems of Housing Finance—Michael E. Stone
5.Federal Housing Subsidies: Who Benefits and Why?—Peter Dreier
6.The Permanent Housing Crisis: The Failures of Conservativism and the 
Limitations of Liberalism—Peter Marcuse and Dennis Keating
7.Federally Assisted Housing in Conflict: Privatization or Preservation? 
—Emily Paradise Achtenberg
Box: Privatizing Rural Rental Housing—Robert Wiener
8.The Case for a Right to Housing—Chester Hartman
9.The Role of the Courts and a Right to Housing—David B. Bryson
10.Housing Organizing for the Long Haul: Building on Experience—Larry 
Lamar Yates
11.Social Ownership—Michael E. Stone
12.Social Financing—Michael Swack
13.The Elderly and a Right to Housing—Jon Pynoos and Christy M. Nishita
14.Opening Doors: What a Right to Housing Means for Women—Susan Saegert 
and Heléne Clark
15.Responses to Homelessness: Past Policies, Future Directions and a 
Right to Housing—Rob Rosenthal and Maria Foscarinis
16.Community Development Corporations: Challenges in Supporting a Right 
to Housing—Rachel G. BrattBox: Old and New Challenges Facing Rural 
Housing Nonprofits—Robert Wiener
17.Between Devolution and the Deep Blue Sea: What's a City or State To 
Do?—John Emmeus Davis
18.Housing and Economic Security—Rachel G. Bratt

Note: Item 10 is a version of the Comm-Org paper with the same title.

In the words of the blurb -- "With essays by leading activists and 
scholars, this book presents a powerful and compelling analysis of the 
persistent inability of the U.S. to meet many of its citizens' housing 
needs, and a comprehensive proposal for progressive change."

I haven't actually read most of the book yet myself, but the editors 
have done a great job of getting a lot of the right people to write it. 
I think it will be genuinely useful to organizers and advocates.


http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/1301_reg.html



Larry Yates
VOP Valley Organizer
P.O. Box 245
Maurertown VA 22644
540 436 3432
llyates at shentel.net
www.virginia-organizing.org

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"...in these times of storm and stress, this program will be opposed. 
Our Movement, therefore, must be well knit together. It must have moral 
and spiritual vision, understanding, and wisdom."

A. Philip Randolph, March on Washington Movement, 1942
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