A right to housing :  foundation for a new social agenda / 
edited by Rachel G. Bratt, Michael E. Stone, and Chester Hartman. 
 - Philadelphia, PA :  Temple University Press,  c2006. 
 - vi, 440 p. :  ill. ;  26 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Why a right to housing is needed and makes sense: editors' introduction --  The economic environment of housing: income inequality and insecurity /  Housing affordability: one-third of a nation shelter-poor /  Segregation and discrimination in housing /  Pernicious problems of housing finance /  Federal housing subsidies: who benefits and why? /  The permanent housing crisis: the failures of conservatism and the limitations of liberalism /  Federally-assisted housing in conflict: privatization or preservation? /  Privatizing rural rental housing /  The case for a right to housing /  The role of the courts and a right to housing /  Housing organizing for the long haul: building on experience /  Social ownership /  Social financing /  The elderly and a right to housing /  Opening doors: what a right to housing means for women /  Responses to homelessness: past policies, future directions, and a right to housing /  Community development corporations: challenges in supporting a right to housing /  Old and new challenges facing rural housing nonprofits /  Between devolution and the deep blue sea: what's a city or state to do? /  Housing and economic security /  Chris Tilly --  Michael E. Stone --  Nancy A. Denton --  Michael E. Stone --  Peter Dreier --  Peter Marcuse, W. Dennis Keating --  Emily Paradise Achtenberg --  Robert Wiener --  Chester Hartman --  David B. Bryson --  Larry Lamar Yates --  Michael E. Stone --  Michael Swack --  Jon Bynoos, Christy M. Nishita --  Susan Saegert, Helène Clark --  Rob Rosenthal, Maria Foscarinis --  Rachel G. Bratt --  Robert Wiener --  John Emmeus David --  Rachel G. Bratt.  BOX:  BOX: 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1592134319 (cloth : alk. paper) 1592134327 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2005050671 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA606599  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>013360525  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Housing policy--United States.<br/>Right to housing--United States.<br/>Housing--Finance.--United States<br/>Equality--United States.<br/>Social justice--United States.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HD7293  / .R46 2006 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>363.5/0973