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A Right to Housing?

Author Samuel Stein
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$14.95 US
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On sale Sep 08, 2026 | 256 Pages | 9781836743262
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A radical blueprint for universal housing meets an unflinching reckoning with why it keeps failing—from the best-selling author of Capital City

In the fight for housing and the right to the city, we are trapped between the world we know and the world we want. A Right to Housing? offers both a roadmap and a reckoning. Drawing from his own experiences of on-the-ground organizing, Stein lays out practical policies for enacting a right to shelter, a right to a home, and a right to the city itself.

With unflinching honesty, he then explores why these visions continuously crash against the rocks of political reality. From the power of real estate capital to the inadequacy of our institutions, he reveals the forces blocking our path—and summons the complex feelings of a Left that has lost faith in the future.

Through these two contrasting perspectives, Stein creates space for action without the illusion of hope. For activists, planners, and anyone who refuses to accept the housing crisis as inevitable.
Samuel Stein is the author of the book Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State. He works as a housing policy researcher and advocate in New York City, and holds a Master’s in Urban Planning from Hunter College (CUNY) and a PhD in geography from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His writing on urban politics and planning has appeared in The New York Review of Books, N+1, The Guardian, and many other publications.
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A radical blueprint for universal housing meets an unflinching reckoning with why it keeps failing—from the best-selling author of Capital City

In the fight for housing and the right to the city, we are trapped between the world we know and the world we want. A Right to Housing? offers both a roadmap and a reckoning. Drawing from his own experiences of on-the-ground organizing, Stein lays out practical policies for enacting a right to shelter, a right to a home, and a right to the city itself.

With unflinching honesty, he then explores why these visions continuously crash against the rocks of political reality. From the power of real estate capital to the inadequacy of our institutions, he reveals the forces blocking our path—and summons the complex feelings of a Left that has lost faith in the future.

Through these two contrasting perspectives, Stein creates space for action without the illusion of hope. For activists, planners, and anyone who refuses to accept the housing crisis as inevitable.

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Samuel Stein is the author of the book Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State. He works as a housing policy researcher and advocate in New York City, and holds a Master’s in Urban Planning from Hunter College (CUNY) and a PhD in geography from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His writing on urban politics and planning has appeared in The New York Review of Books, N+1, The Guardian, and many other publications.
Samuel Stein View titles by Samuel Stein

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Other Books by this Author

  • Capital City
    Capital City
    Gentrification and the Real Estate State
    Samuel Stein
    9781786636393
    $17.95 US
    Paperback
    Verso
    Mar 12, 2019
  • Capital City
    Capital City
    Gentrification and the Real Estate State
    Samuel Stein
    9781786636393
    $17.95 US
    Paperback
    Verso
    Mar 12, 2019

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