Lessons from Eviction Court goes behind the disturbing statistics of evictions and homelessness to provide the first-hand experience of a lawyer who is in eviction court each week, standing alongside people who are losing their homes.
Fran Quigley provides a clear and emphatic prescription for how we can end evictions and homelessness in the United States, with the stories of struggling clients serving as the introduction for discussions of the reforms needed. Homelessness does not need to happen, nor do widespread evictions. They do not occur in other nations like in ours, and they did not used to not be the norm here in the US. Lessons from Eviction Court explains how we can end this national crisis.
Introduction
1. The View From Eviction Court
2. How We Abandoned Affordable Housing
3. 'We Have to Address the Racism"
4. Housing Socialism for the Rich
5. Our Government Runs an Eviction Machine to BenefitLandlordsLet's Pump
the Brakes
6. How We Fix This: Housing First and Beyond
7. How We Fix This: Rent Control
8. How We Fix This: Public and Social Housings
9. What Words: Lessons From Other Countries
10. Religious Traditions and the Human Right to Housing
11. Building a Movement
12. "No Housing, No Peace"
Conclusion
Fran Quigley is the Director of the Health and Human Rights Clinic at the Indiana University McKinney School of Law. He advocates for the human right to housing, defending people facing eviction, and promoting policies that ensure all people have a safe, affordable home. He is the author of Prescription for the People and Religious Socialism.
