A Right to Housing?

A radical blueprint for universal housing meets an unflinching assessment of why we haven't won--from the best-selling...
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Author: Samuel Stein
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Language: English
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A Right to Housing?

$23.94

A Right to Housing?

$23.94
Author: Samuel Stein
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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A radical blueprint for universal housing meets an unflinching assessment of why we haven't won--from the best-selling author of Capital City

In 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.

With 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.

Written 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.

Author: Samuel Stein
Publisher: Verso
Published: 09/08/2026
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.10h x 4.50w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781836743262


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 07/17/2026 pg. 1
Publishers Weekly 08/31/2026

About the Author
Samuel Stein is the author of Capital City. He works as a housing policy researcher and advocate in New York City. He has written on urban politics and planning in the New York Review of Books, Baffler, New York Review of Architecture, Guardian, n+1, and many other publications.
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