{"product_id":"a-right-to-housing","title":"A Right to Housing?","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Samuel Stein\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVerso\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e9\/8\/2026, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSKU: 9781836743262\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA radical blueprint for universal housing meets an unflinching assessment of why we haven't won--from the best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eCapital City\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Highly recommended for activists of all stripes, but a must-read for everyone who has struggled to instantiate a human right to housing.\" -- Gail Radford, author of \u003ci\u003eModern Housing for America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A deeply thoughtful and provocative exploration of housing politics in the current conjuncture.\" -- David Madden, co-author of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/products\/in-defense-of-housing-the-politics-of-crisis\" title=\"In Defense of Housing\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn Defense of Housing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"What a pleasure to see inside the doubting mind of Samuel Stein as he grapples with the impossibility of our housing quagmire. If you too have the uncomfortable suspicion that solving housing might be hopeless: read this book.\" -- Amanda Huron, author of \u003ci\u003eCarving out the Commons\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSamuel Stein\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/products\/capital-city\" title=\"Capital City\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eCapital City\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e. He works as a housing policy researcher and advocate in New York City. He has written on urban politics and planning in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books, Baffler, New York Review of Architecture, Guardian, n+1\u003c\/i\u003e, and many other publications.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burning Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53876876378395,"sku":"Right to Housing","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0466\/5121\/files\/71WYG1sTyRL._SL1500.jpg?v=1788543604","url":"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/products\/a-right-to-housing","provider":"Burning Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}