{"product_id":"a-right-to-housing-9781836743262","title":"A Right to Housing?","description":"\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Verso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/08\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781836743262\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs","brand":"Samuel Stein","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52801249870005,"sku":"9781836743262","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-right-to-housing-9781836743262","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}