In "Shelter Poverty", Michael E. Stone presents the definitive discussion of housing and social justice in the United States. Challenging the conventional definition of housing affordability, Stone offers original and powerful insights about the nature, causes, and consequences of the affordability problem and presents creative and detailed proposals for solving a problem that afflicts one-third of this nation. Setting the housing crisis into broad political, economic, and historical contexts, Stone asks: What is shelter poverty? Why does it exist and persist? and How can it be overcome? Describing shelter poverty as the denial of a universal human need, Stone offers a quantitative scale by which to measure it and reflects on the social and economic implications of housing affordability in this country. He argues for "the right to housing" and presents a program for transforming a large proportion of the housing in this country from an expensive commodity into an affordable social entitlement. Employing new concepts of housing ownership, tenure, and finance, he favors social ownership in which market concepts have a useful but subordinate role in the identification of housing preferences and allocation. Stone concludes that political action around shelter poverty will further the goal of achieving a truly just and democratic society that is also equitably and responsibly productive and prosperous. Author note: Michael E. Stone is Professor of Community Planning at the University of Massachusetts at Boston.
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"...the most original—and profoundly disturbing—work on the critical issue of housing affordability...."
—Chester Hartman, President, Poverty and Race Research Action Council
—Chester Hartman, President, Poverty and Race Research Action Council
"Stone identifies many housing reform policies on the way to a right-to-housing that have been enacted at the federal, state and local levels. This gives hope that incremental changes, largely at the grassroots level, may eventually form the basis for more progressive, systematic changes at the national level when a political constituency for such change emerges."
—Shelterforce Online
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intermediate budget, shelter poverty exist, affordable shelter cost, average affordability gap, conventional homeownership, lower budget standard, mortgaged homeownership, affordability situation, affordability capacity, affordability scale, tenant militancy, homeowner households, affordability standard, residential mortgage debt, housing affordability problem, nothing for housing, housing organizing, renter households, private rental housing, tenant organizing, social financing, mutual housing associations, affordability problems, speculative increases, housing production Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, World War, Lower Budget, Poverty Level, Bureau of the Census, Social Security, Economic Crisis, Housing Act, New York, League of Savings Associations, Civil War, Family Budget Revisions, Federal Reserve, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Instability of Housing Production, Shelter-Poverty Affordability, Total Budget, Federal Home Loan Bank Board, Expert Committee, Historical Roots of the Problem, Freddie Mac, Great Depression, National Housing Task Force, Office of Thrift Supervision, Sec Appendix Browse Sample Pages:
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intermediate budget, shelter poverty exist, affordable shelter cost, average affordability gap, conventional homeownership, lower budget standard, mortgaged homeownership, affordability situation, affordability capacity, affordability scale, tenant militancy, homeowner households, affordability standard, residential mortgage debt, housing affordability problem, nothing for housing, housing organizing, renter households, private rental housing, tenant organizing, social financing, mutual housing associations, affordability problems, speculative increases, housing production Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, World War, Lower Budget, Poverty Level, Bureau of the Census, Social Security, Economic Crisis, Housing Act, New York, League of Savings Associations, Civil War, Family Budget Revisions, Federal Reserve, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Instability of Housing Production, Shelter-Poverty Affordability, Total Budget, Federal Home Loan Bank Board, Expert Committee, Historical Roots of the Problem, Freddie Mac, Great Depression, National Housing Task Force, Office of Thrift Supervision, Sec Appendix Browse Sample Pages:
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- Property and Values: Alternatives To Public And Private Ownership by Charles Geisler on page 257
- Defending the Right to a Home: The Power of Anti-Poverty Lawyers (Law, Justice and Power) by Beth Ellen Harris in Back Matter
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