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Compelling analysis of the persistent inability of the United States to meet the housing needs of a large portion of its people.

Proposes a different strategy for producing decent, affordable housing for low-income people through non-profit community-based organizations. This book analyzes the limitations of both profit-oriented developers and public agencies as the primary vehicles for developing low- and middle-income housing.

Examining earlier federal housing initiatives, this work argues that public housing has not failed. It proposes a strategy for producing decent, affordable housing for low-income people through non-profit community-based organizations. It also examines the dilemmas faced by community development corporations.

In the 1949 Housing Act, Congress declared "a decent home and a suitable living environment for every American family" our national housing goal. Today, little more than half a century later, upwards of 100 million people in the United States live in housing that is physically inadequate, unsafe, overcrowded, or unaffordable. The contributors to A Right to Housing consider the key issues related to America's housing crisis, including income inequality and insecurity, segregation and discrimination, the rights of the elderly, as well as legislative and judicial responses to homelessness. The...