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Bringing Home The Right To Housing To Advance Urban Sustainability, Lisa Alexander
Bringing Home The Right To Housing To Advance Urban Sustainability, Lisa Alexander
Texas A&M Journal of Property Law
The title of my talk today is Bringing Home the Right to Housing to Advance Urban Sustainability. You may ask what is the right to housing? Why do we need to bring it home? And what does it have to do with the broader topic of today’s symposium, urban sustainability?
The human right to housing, although not a formal American federal or constitutional right, provides an important legal and normative framework that can help American cities and states better balance the needs of owners and non-owners in local housing and development struggles. If American cities and states want to create …