Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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, 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 --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.

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LCC Number: HD7293

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Language: eng
Physical Description: vi, 440 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
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