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[from Bratt & Hartmann 2006:]<br/> "In 1989, the Washington, DC-based Institute for Policy Studies assembled a Working Group on Housing (including Chester Hartman and Michael Stone, Emily Achtenberg, Peter Dreier, Peter Marcuse Florence Roisman) that crafted a detailed housing program, put forward in The Right to Housing: A Blueprint for Housing the Nation.<br/> "That document provided an analysis of the failures of the private market and of government programs similar to what is put forward in this book. And it included a detailed program for preserving affordable rental housing; promoting affordable homeownership; protecting the stock of government-assisted housing; and producing/financing new affordable housing. First-year program costs—estimated for each element of the program,with administrative costs added—at that time ranged from $29 billion to $88 billion, depending on how rapidly and fully specific program elements were introduced; by way of comparison, at the same time, the highly regressive income tax system for housing provided at least $54 billion in tax breaks for high-income households. The thrust of the various elements was to move substantial portions of the existing housing stock, as well as new additions, into the nonprofit sector(public as well as private)—“decommodifying housing” was the catchword. Annual costswould steadily decrease as this fundamental shift in the nation’s housing stock progressed.
"Congressman Ron Dellums of California introduced the program in the 101st Congress as '''H.R. 1122 (A Bill to Provide an Affordable, Secure and Decent Home and Suitable Living Environment for Every American Family'''). Needless to say, it did not pass. At the end of a hearing on the Bill, Congressman Henry Gonzalez of Texas, then Chair of the Banking, Finance & Urban Affairs Committee and Chair of the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development,remarked, “What your group haspresentedisinevitably going tohappen. . . . It is imaginative, it is seminal, it is creative.” We agree and hope this book will hasten that day."<br/>
== Maryland's Social Housing Act of 2019 ==▼
Carter, Dennis. "Here’s What a ‘Housing as a Human Right’ Bill Looks Like." ''Rewire News, ''Feb 20, 2019, 5:23pm. <br/> About Maryland's Social Housing Act of 2019, created by state delegate Vaughn Stewart (D-Montgomery), that would create a social housing program to ensure everyone in the state of 6 million people has access to housing. It would create a $2.5 billion trust fund from which the state could create and maintain housing units. The legislation is first of its kind, Stewart said.▼
“Call it the ‘public option for housing,'” he said.
A social housing system, commonplace throughout Europe, would differ from traditional public housing programs in the United States because it would be open to everyone, varying in price according to a person’s income."
== <br/> 2019 California 'Right to Housing' debate ==
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== Portland State University study and proposal, 2019 ==▼
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"This report takes a comprehensive look at the scale of homelessness and housing insecurity experienced in the Portland tri-county area. Our goal in producing this report is to help community members understand the scope and scale of the challenges we face when addressing homelessness and housing insecurity. We examine governance options, provide cost estimates for providing housing, supports, and services, and present revenue-raising<br/> options for our local governments to address homelessness and housing insecurity. Before getting too far into the report, we want to make sure to note a few things. Many of the available counts of those experiencing homelessness use a narrow definition. We believe this leaves people behind. For example, the official Point-in-Time counts do not include those living doubled up, those sometimes described as the hidden homeless or precariously housed. This vulnerable population is sleeping on friends’ couches or cramming in unsafe numbers into bedrooms..." ▼
▲== Portland State University study and proposal, 2019 ==
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▲Portland State University Homelessness Research & Action Collaborative [PSU 2019]. "[https://www.pdx.edu/syndication/sites/www.pdx.edu.syndication/files/HRAC-NERC%20Final%20Draft%20JG%207AM8_20_2019.pdf Governance, Costs, and Revenue Raising to Address and Prevent Homelessness in the Portland Tri-County Region]." Lead author, Dr. Marisa Zapata. PSU report, August 21, 2019.
▲<blockquote>This report does not explicitly articulate a "Right to Housing" concept, but it notably uses broad definitions and makes wide estimates of how many people in the region experience homelessness in some form, or are considered vulnerable to falling into homelessness. By proposing government assistance, in the form of housing provision and rent assistance, for these entire populations, it arguably approaches an idea of "Right to housing." "This report takes a comprehensive look at the scale of homelessness and housing insecurity experienced in the Portland tri-county area. Our goal in producing this report is to help community members understand the scope and scale of the challenges we face when addressing homelessness and housing insecurity. We examine governance options, provide cost estimates for providing housing, supports, and services, and present revenue-raising<br/> options for our local governments to address homelessness and housing insecurity. Before getting too far into the report, we want to make sure to note a few things. Many of the available counts of those experiencing homelessness use a narrow definition. We believe this leaves people behind. For example, the official Point-in-Time counts do not include those living doubled up, those sometimes described as the hidden homeless or precariously housed. This vulnerable population is sleeping on friends’ couches or cramming in unsafe numbers into bedrooms..." </blockquote>
Maryland's Social Housing Act of 2019 Carter, Dennis. "Here’s What a ‘Housing as a Human Right’ Bill Looks Like." Rewire News, Feb 20, 2019, 5:23pm. About Maryland's Social Housing Act of 2019, created by state delegate Vaughn Stewart (D-Montgomery), that would create a social housing program to ensure everyone in the state of 6 million people has access to housing. It would create a $2.5 billion trust fund from which the state could create and maintain housing units. The legislation is first of its kind, Stewart said.
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▲= Maryland's Social Housing Act of 2019 =
▲Carter, Dennis. "Here’s What a ‘Housing as a Human Right’ Bill Looks Like." ''Rewire News, ''Feb 20, 2019, 5:23pm. <br/> About Maryland's Social Housing Act of 2019, created by state delegate Vaughn Stewart (D-Montgomery), that would create a social housing program to ensure everyone in the state of 6 million people has access to housing. It would create a $2.5 billion trust fund from which the state could create and maintain housing units. The legislation is first of its kind, Stewart said.
“Call it the ‘public option for housing,'” he said.
A social housing system, commonplace throughout Europe, would differ from traditional public housing programs in the United States because it would be open to everyone, varying in price according to a person’s income."
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[[File:HIHR-poster-Right-to-Housing-Coalition-Ontario-2012.jpg|thumb|left|500px|graphic from Right to Housing Coalition (Ontario), 2012]]
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*Portland State University Homelessness Research & Action Collaborative [PSU 2019]. "[https://www.pdx.edu/syndication/sites/www.pdx.edu.syndication/files/HRAC-NERC%20Final%20Draft%20JG%207AM8_20_2019.pdf Governance, Costs, and Revenue Raising to Address and Prevent Homelessness in the Portland Tri-County Region]." Lead author, Dr. Marisa Zapata. PSU report, August 21, 2019. [https://www.pdx.edu/syndication/sites/www.pdx.edu.syndication/files/HRAC-NERC%20Final%20Draft%20JG%207AM8_20_2019.pdf https://www.pdx.edu/syndication/sites/www.pdx.edu.syndication/files/HRAC-NERC%20Final%20Draft%20JG%207AM8_20_2019.pdf].<br/>
*Salins, Peter D. "[https://www.innovations.harvard.edu/comment-chester-hartmans-case-right-housing-housing-right-wrong Comment on Chester Hartman’s 'The Case for a Right to Housing’: Housing Is a Right? Wrong!]" Housing Policy Debate, Volume 9, Issue 2 259, 1998.[https://www.innovations.harvard.edu/comment-chester-hartmans-case-right-housing-housing-right-wrong https://www.innovations.harvard.edu/comment-chester-hartmans-case-right-housing-housing-right-wrong].<br/>
*Sand, Kaia. "[https://news.streetroots.org/2019/08/23/confront-housing-crisis-it-time-think-big To confront the housing crisis, it is time to think big]." Street Roots (Portland, OR), 23 Aug 2019. [https://news.streetroots.org/2019/08/23/confront-housing-crisis-it-time-think-big. https://news.streetroots.org/2019/08/23/confront-housing-crisis-it-time-think-big. ]<br/>
*Steinberg, Darrell [2019a]. "Op-Ed: Building more permanent housing alone won’t solve homelessness in California." ''Los Angeles Times, ''July 17, 2019. [https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-07-16/op-ed-building-more-permanent-housing-alone-wont-solve-homelessness-in-california https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-07-16/op-ed-building-more-permanent-housing-alone-wont-solve-homelessness-in-california]. <br/>
*Steinberg, Darrell [2019b]. "[https://calmatters.org/commentary/california-should-make-clear-there-is-a-right-to-housing-not-simply-shelter/ California should make clear there is a right to housing, not simply shelter]." CalMatters, August 25, 2019. [https://calmatters.org/commentary/california-should-make-clear-there-is-a-right-to-housing-not-simply-shelter/ https://calmatters.org/commentary/california-should-make-clear-there-is-a-right-to-housing-not-simply-shelter/]. <br/>
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**[http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/13session/A-HRC-13-20.pdf REport to UN HRC, 2009. A/HRC/13/20]<br/>
*United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) - Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). "[https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/HousingRightsen.pdf Housing Rights Legislation: Review of International and National Legal Instruments]." Nairobi, 2002. [https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/HousingRightsen.pdf https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/HousingRightsen.pdf].
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