housing justice Concepts

Beautiful Solutions: A Toolbox for Liberation

by Elandria Williams, Eli Feghali, Rachel Plattus and Nathan Schneider · 15 Dec 2024 · 346pp · 84,111 words

freelance journalist who covers grassroots movements and solidarity economy projects, with a focus on land, housing, and policy. He is also an organizer focused on housing justice, and works on climate justice and sustainability efforts in and around Ithaca, New York. Germany’s Green Party, founded in 1979, won its first parliamentary

All the President's Men

by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward · 1 Jan 1974 · 448pp · 124,391 words

out and sort of semi-blackmail them if something was found . . . a very heavy-handed operation.” Deep Throat had access to information from the White House, Justice, the FBI and CRP. What he knew represented an aggregate of hard information flowing in and out of many stations. Reluctantly, after prodding, he agreed

Who Owns England?: How We Lost Our Green and Pleasant Land, and How to Take It Back

by Guy Shrubsole · 1 May 2019 · 505pp · 133,661 words

-as-aurora-prepares-for-seismic-surveys/ a decent percentage Some have been calling on the Church to do this for years. The Christian campaigning group Housing Justice called for the Church to make its land available for affordable housing in 2015: see Jonathan Owen, ‘Church of England “should sell off its £2bn

Rikers: An Oral History

by Graham Rayman and Reuven Blau · 17 Jan 2023 · 492pp · 152,167 words

had no business saying what he said two weeks earlier. We had to teach him a lesson. You can’t do that. That’s in-house justice, it had to be done quietly. Back then it was seen as justifiable. I’d had the riot in 1986, which changed my whole outlook

Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the Surveillance State

by Barton Gellman · 20 May 2020 · 562pp · 153,825 words

, when the FOIA results came in, years later, the interesting ones mostly looked like the example I reproduce on this page exchange among senior White House, Justice Department, and DNI officials. Banter with Snowden, regardless of subject, came as a relief to me. It was our first contact in months. Snowden had

Dreaming in Public: Building the Occupy Movement

by Amy Lang and Daniel Lang/levitsky · 11 Jun 2012 · 537pp · 99,778 words

of these uses of long-term reclamation – of ‘occupation’ – wears on its sleeve connections to movements outside the US. Take Back the Land (and other housing justice organizations like New York City’s Picture the Homeless) takes the ongoing Brazilian Landless Movement (MST: Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Terra), begun in 1985, as

Silicon City: San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley

by Cary McClelland · 8 Oct 2018 · 225pp · 70,241 words

making too much money and they don’t feel a personal responsibility for what’s happening. They could start an initiative with their coworkers for housing justice, maybe consider giving away a huge portion of their income to mirror the median income of their neighbors. Because until you’re on equal footing

…

is contingent on whether we do it right or not. There are no silver-bullet answers. Better economic opportunity, better mobilization of local resources, better housing, justice. Frankly, these are not problems that the Valley is good at solving. At least historically, it hasn’t been. The market has failed, our public

How to Kill a City: The Real Story of Gentrification

by Peter Moskowitz · 7 Mar 2017 · 288pp · 83,690 words

most vulnerable. Hundreds took to the streets. “You have mass displacement, you have homeless people being pushed from one neighborhood to another,” Miguel Carrera, the housing justice organizer for the Coalition on Homelessness, told me. “And the mayor throws a party.” This is in many ways exactly what the city asked for

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

by Matthew Desmond · 1 Mar 2016 · 444pp · 138,781 words

Association, Brown University, Center for Housing Policy, Columbia University, Duke University, Harvard University, Harvard Business School, Harvard Law School, Harvard School of Public Health, the Housing Justice Network, King’s College London, London School of Economics, National Low Income Housing Coalition Legislative Forum, Marquette University, Max Planck–Sciences Po Center, Massachusetts Institute

Poverty for Profit

by Anne Kim · 384pp · 112,825 words

is to succeed. The chapters that follow describe the multiple industries that are infiltrating almost every aspect of the lives of the poor—health care, housing, justice, job training, and nutrition. They also explain how these businesses are aided and abetted by public policies such as the wholesale privatization of government services