A Right to Housing?, (Paperback)

<b>A radical blueprint for universal housing meets an unflinching assessment of why we haven't won--from the best-selling author of <i>Capital City</i></b> <p>In the fight for housing, we are caught between the world we know and the world we want. This book is both a road map and a reckoning. Drawing on his own experience of on-the-ground organizing, Samuel Stein presents practical policies for enacting a right to shelter, a right to a home, and a right to the city itself. </p><p>With raw honesty, he then explores why these visions founder on the rocks of political reality. He reveals the forces blocking our path--from the power of real estate capital to the inadequacy of our institutions--and captures the complex feelings of a left that has lost faith in the future. </p><p>Written in the heady weeks surrounding Zohran Mamdani's historic election for New York City mayor, Stein frames the book around the stirring possibilities and structural constraints of a socialist administration in the financial center of a sputtering empire. He opens a space for action in the absence of hope. This is an examination of life and politics at the intersection of optimism and pessimism, nihilism and naivety, faith and doubt--an essential book for activists, planners, and anyone who refuses to accept the housing crisis as inevitable or immutable.</p>

• A Right to Housing?, (Paperback)
• Author: Samuel Stein
• ISBN: 9781836743262
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-09-08
• Page Count: 240