Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Keyword
-
- Austin (1)
- Bargain (1)
- Black (1)
- Book review (1)
- California (1)
-
- Carrboro (1)
- Chapel Hill (1)
- Chicago (1)
- Children (1)
- Court (1)
- Court system (1)
- Dane County (1)
- Detroit (1)
- Discrimination (1)
- Displacement (1)
- Domestic violence (1)
- Eugene (1)
- Evicted (1)
- Eviction (1)
- FHA (1)
- Fair housing act (1)
- Family (1)
- Free choice (1)
- Gender (1)
- Homeless (1)
- Housing (1)
- Housing Choice Voucher Program (1)
- Housing court (1)
- Housing market (1)
- Human Rights Laws (1)
Articles 1 - 2 of 2
Full-Text Articles in Entire DC Network
Occupying The Constitutional Right To Housing, Lisa T. Alexander
Occupying The Constitutional Right To Housing, Lisa T. Alexander
Lisa T. Alexander
The United States does not recognize a formal legal right to housing. Yet the right to housing is alive in America. Using qualitative interviews and case studies, this Article is the first to argue that recent American housing rights movements, such as the Occupy Movements, Take Back the Land movements, and Home Defenders’ League, give legal meaning to an American constitutional right to housing. These social movements represent the right to housing in American law when they occupy and retain vacant and real estate–owned homes, defend home owners and renters from illegal evictions and foreclosures, encourage municipalities to use eminent …
Evicted: The Socio-Legal Case For The Right To Housing, Lisa T. Alexander
Evicted: The Socio-Legal Case For The Right To Housing, Lisa T. Alexander
Lisa T. Alexander
Matthew Desmond's Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City is a triumphant work that provides the missing socio-legal data needed to prove why America should recognize housing as a human right. Desmond's masterful study of the effect of evictions on Milwaukee's urban poor in the wake of the 2008 U.S. housing crisis humanizes the evicted, and their landlords, through rich and detailed ethnographies. His intimate portrayals teach Evicted's readers about the agonizingly difficult choices that low-income, unsubsidized tenants must make in the private rental market. Evicted also reveals the contradictions between "law on the books" and "law-in-action." Its most …