Right to the City maintains a Homes for All campaign that has done some excellent research into city housing crises across the US. My favorite report from their network is this catalog of alternative models and their uses, which has gotten hard to find online:
People-driven alternatives to an unjust housing system (2018) (local copy)
Some related reading from the Homes for All campaign over the years:
- World Charter on the Right to the City (2004-5)
- We Call These Projects Home: A report on housing projects (2010)
- Development Without Displacement (2014) – Resisting gentrification int he Bay Area. w/ Causa Justa and Alameda County PHD
- Rise of the Corporate Landlord (2014)
- Rise of the Renter Nation (2014)
- Displacement Zones: How opportunity zones turn communities into tax shelters (2019)
- Our Homes, Our Future (2019) – w/ CPD and PolicyLink
- Reclaiming the right to the City (2021) – Chicago
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