A Right to Housing? | The Verso Book Club Reading Group
Samuel Stein and David Madden join the Verso Book Club Reading Group to reckon with the ongoing fight for a right to shelter, a right to a home, and a right to the city itself.
In the fight for housing, we are caught between the world we know and the world we want. A Right to Housing? is both a road map and a reckoning, presenting practical policies for enacting a right to shelter, a right to a home, and a right to the city itself.
On September 27th, the VBC Reading Group will be joined by Samuel Stein to discuss his latest book with David Madden, co-author of In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis.
The VBC Reading Group is open to all Book Club members. You can join the Book Club for as little as $10 / £8 per month, with no commitment.
About the Authors:
Samuel Stein is the author of the books A Right to Housing? and Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State. He works as a housing policy researcher and advocate in New York City. His writing on urban politics and planning has appeared in The New York Review of Books, n+1, The Guardian, and many other publications.
David Madden is an urban sociologist and housing researcher. He is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Cities Programme at the London School of Economics. He is co-author, with Peter Marcuse, of In Defense of Housing (2016; second edition 2024).
About the VBC Reading Group
As the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world, we believe that a revolutionary pedagogy is vital to building a liberatory future. This new addition to the Verso Book Club moves beyond the initial reading of a book, asking readers to dig into the critical, though often messy, next stage of discussing, arguing, reflecting, and expanding upon the text.
Each month, we will meet over Zoom to hear from the authors themselves, or from a scholar, writer, or thinker who has had a key influence on the topic at hand. Guest speakers are not asked to lecture per se, but to be in conversation with their own reading of the text, highlighting key moments, explicating subtleties, and suggesting questions for further dialogue in advance of small group discussion. We also encourage members to self-organize either in person or virtual satellite meetups.
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