Index
Acts of Apostles, 123–124, 134
Affordable housing: federally subsidized housing, 16, 33–45, 68, 163–165; human right to housing, 107–111, 154; privatization of, 16–20; public support for, 5, 19, 86, 137, 153–156; US investment historically, 13–16, 24–25. See also public housing, social housing, universal housing vouchers
American Anti-Slavery Society, 116
American Housing Act of 1937, 14, 88, 90, 158
American Housing Act of 1949, 13, 20, 29, 92, 110
American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), 86
American Muslim Healthcare Professionals, 130
American Rescue Plan of 2021, 70
Amistad Catholic Worker Community, 119–122
Apollo Global Management, 11
Athens, 110
Bach, Victor, 15
Ballot measures supporting housing, 5, 19, 86, 137, 154–155, 158
Bank of America, Countrywide Financial, 27
Bargaining for the Common Good, 158–159
Belgium, 106
Bellamy, Jessica, 140, 143–147
Berlin, 106
Biden, Joe, 62–63, 66, 68, 111, 147, 149–150
Blackstone, 11, 19, 78, 159–160
Boffo, Leonard, 116
Bowron, Josh, 114
Breitner Taxes (Vienna), 103
Brookings Institution, 27, 42, 65, 85, 122
Brothers Karamazov, 60
Brown, Jasmine, 150
Brown-Jackson, Ketanji, 22
Buffett, Warren, 11
Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam, 129–130
Capital gains taxes on real estate income, 37–38
CARES Act, 58
Carlyle Group, 11
Catholic Charities USA, 114, 119
Catholicism and Housing, 115–116, 134
Catholic Worker, 57–60, 114, 119–122
Cebul, Brent, 29
Center for American Progress, 145
Center for Popular Democracy, 45, 75, 85, 135, 153
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 38, 43–44, 70
Chang, Stanley, 14–15, 20, 105–106
Chicago Teachers Union, 158
Chile, social housing, 106
Christianity and Housing, 123–125, 134
Church of Jesus Chris of Latter Day Saints, 134
Clean Hands requirement for evictions, 53, 148
Cohen, Aryeh, 128
Cohen, Daniel Aldana, 15
Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, 109
Community Development Block Grants, 85
Community Land Trusts (CLT’s), 97–98
Community Opportunity to Purchase Act (COPA), 95, 97–98
Congressional Budget Office, 20
Connecticut Tenants Union, 161–162
Constitutions and housing, 107–111, 154
Cooper, Ryan, 106
Corporate landlords: evictions filed by, 47, 163; generally, 7–8, 137; growth in rental markets, 73, 85, 91; tax benefits provided, 35–45, 67, 91
Cort, John, 125
Dali Lama aka Tenzin Gyatso, 130–131
Darrah, Dan, 41
Democratic Socialists of America, 116, 125
Denmark, 106
Depreciation of real estate for tax purposes, 37
Desmas, Jerusalem, 79
Desmond, Matthew, 8, 26, 47–49, 51–52, 65, 112
Displacement aka gentrification, 28–30, 143–146
Dreier, Peter, 14
Economic Policy Institute, 44
Emergency Rental Assistance program, 18, 71
Episcopal Church and Housing, 114–115, 134
Equity Lifestyle Properties, 11
European Social Charter, 110
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, 134
Evanston, IL, 32
Eviction Lab, Princeton University, 3, 7, 70
Evictions: court scenes, 1–2; courts enabling fast displacement, 47–50; health impacts, 6–7, 51; legal reforms needed, 51–54; serial filings, 8, 48
Faircloth Amendment, 90, 92, 98
Fair Housing Act, 67
Family Promise of Greater Indianapolis, 126
Fannie Mae, 12, 53, 85, 149, 151
Federal Housing Administration (FHA), 13–14, 24–26, 31, 107, 164
Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), 149–150
Federal Reserve Bank, 8
Ferreyra, Ramona, 88–89, 91–93
Finland housing, 62, 64, 91, 105, 109–110, 131, 136
Fischel, William, 66
France, 109
Fuchs, Stephen Lewis, 126
Fudge, Marcia, 111
Garrison, William Lloyd, 116, 166
Gentrification aka displacement, 28–30, 143–146
Germany housing, 91, 106, 109, 137
Goetz, Edward, 30
Gomez, Jimmy, 134
Good cause aka just cause requirement for evictions, 53, 148, 165
Good Samaritan parable, 118, 120, 123
Gowan, Peter, 106
Great Britain housing, 106
Great Depression, 13
Greater Indianapolis Multifaith Alliance, 112, 126
Greece, homelessness response, 106, 110
Green New Deal for Public Housing Act, 88, 92, 98, 161
Gutiérrez, Gustavo, 116
Harris, Jasmine, 137–139, 142–143, 148
Hart, David Bentley, 124
Health and Human Rights Clinic, Indiana U. McKinney Law, 2, 3, 6
Heschel, Abraham Joshua, 118
Holleran, Max, 94
Homeless Bill of Rights, 110
Homelessness: causes, 61–63, 69–70; “hidden homeless,” 61–64; Housing First as solution, 55–64
Homeownership, tax benefits, 21–22, 39–42, 65–66, 76, 91, 164
Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC), 13, 24–25, 164
Homes Act, 98
Homestead Acts, 24
“Homevoter,” 66
Housing. See affordable housing, evictions, HUD, landlords, public housing, racism in housing, religious communities and housing, rent control, subsidized housing, tax policy and housing.
Housing Act of 1937, 14, 88, 90, 158
Housing Act of 1949, 13, 20, 29, 92, 110
Housing readiness, 62
HUD (Department of Housing and Urban Development): generally, 14, 61, 71, 85, 111; investments shifted from public housing to for-profit landlords, 17–18; praise for Vienna, 101
If We Can Win Here: The New Front Lines of the Labor Movement (Quigley), 157
Inclusionary zoning, 3–4, 64–67, 69
Indiana Justice Project, 50–51
Indianapolis Star, 8
Indiana University McKinney School of Law, 2
International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), 108–110
Jacoby, Samantha, 43
Javed, Iman, 130
Jewish Labor Bund, 128
Joint Center for Housing Studies, 71
Jones, Buck, 119
Journal of Housing Economics, 20
Judaism and housing, 114, 118, 125–129
Just cause aka good cause requirement for evictions, 53
Karl Marx-Hof (Vienna), 100, 103
Katz, Alyssa, 19
King, Dr. Martin Luther, Jr., 34, 117–119, 137, 166
Kleinbard, Edward, 36
Kristof, Nicholas, 111
Labor movement and housing, 157–162
Land value uplift tax, 67
Landlords, Corporate or institutional: evictions filed by, 47, 163; generally, 7–8, 137; growth in rental markets, 73, 85, 91; tax benefits provided, 35–45, 67, 91
Landlords, “mom-and-pop,” 7, 163
Lerner, Stephen, 158
Lewis, Apryl, 22, 115, 153–154
Like-kind exchanges, aka 1031 exchanges, 43
Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, 12, 39
Lindbeck, Assar, 78
Lindsey v. Normet, 109
Louisville Metro Housing Authority, 140–142
Louisville Tenants Union: CT Group and Louisville Metro Housing Authority campaign, 140–142; “Fair Lease” campaign, 142–143; generally, 5, 138–152; gentrification, response to, 143–146; national campaign, 146–151; origin, 139–140
March on Washington, 1963, 118–119, 137
Mari, Francesca, 90
Marks, Zachary, 97
Marx, Karl, 125
Mason, John D., 133
Mason, J. W., 80
Matthew 25 (Gospel passage), 58–59, 114, 123, 133
McCarthy, George, 12
Merritt, Keri Leigh, 24
Methodist Church and Housing, 114, 134
Milking (extraction of value of homes), 9
Miller, Kay, 115
Mobile Home University, 11
Montgomery County, Maryland, 97
Muslims and Housing, 118
Myklebust, Sara, 159
National Apartment Association, 81, 83, 156
National Association of Realtors, 78–79, 81–83
National Health Care for the Homeless Council, 121
National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, 110
National Low-Income Housing Coalition, 99, 114, 135, 137, 154
National Multifamily Housing Council, 78, 83, 137, 150, 156
National Tenants’ Union, 137
Netherlands, 109
Newberry Parc Apartments (Louisville), 149–152
Newkirk, Vann R. II, 23
New York City Housing Authority, 16
NIMBY (Not In My Backyard), 41
NPR aka National Public Radio, 12
Painter, Gary, 80
Palumbo, Andrea, 115–117, 122, 125
Paschall, Wildstyle, 29
Pass-through income for corporate landlords, 36
Patriotic Millionaires, 44
People’s Action, 45, 96, 135, 150
Perlstein, Rick, 41
Peters, Peter W., 131
Poe, Josh, 139, 145–146, 148–152
Pope Francis, 134
Poor People’s Campaign, 119, 137
Poppendieck, Janet, 132
Poverty and Race Research and Action Council, 18
Privatization of Affordable Housing, 16–18
Project-Based Section 8 housing, 17–18, 92, 95
Property tax reductions for real estate owners, 39
Pro Publica, 35
Public housing: benefits of, 87–89, 92–93; disinvestment from, 14–16, 90–91; generally, 4, 74; and racism, 30–31, 166. See also social housing
Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act, 15, 90
Quigley, Sam, 44
Quinnipiac Avenue Tenant Union, 160
Quran, 58
Racism in US Housing: employment exploitation and discrimination, 22–24; environmental racism, 29–30; eviction rates and renter rates, 21, 28; generally, 21–32; government role, 24–26, 143–146; homeownership and home equity gap, 21–22, 40–41; predatory housing practices, 26–28; public housing segregation and destruction, 30–31; rent control as response to, 83; reparations and responses, 31–32; theft of black labor, impact, 22–24; urban development, harm caused by, 28–30, 143–146
RAD (Rental Assistance Demonstration) Program, 90–91
Raghuveer, Tara, 85, 147, 149, 155–156, 161
Ramsey, Dave, 11
Randolph, A. Philip, 118
Reagan, Ronald, 14, 17, 70, 90, 132
Real Estate Investment Trusts, REITS, 36
RealPage, 73
Redlining, 25
Religious communities and housing: advocacy versus charity, 131–135; Buddhism and housing, 130–131; Christianity and housing, 123–125; generally, 4, 112–135; history of advocacy, 116–119; Islam and housing, 129–130; Judaism and housing, 125–130;
Rent control aka rent stabilization or rent caps: affordability of housing, impact on, 75, 82–84; conditions of housing, impact on, 80–81; generally, 4, 53, 72–86; history, 77–78; housing supply, impact on, 78–80; international examples, 101; national campaign, 155–156; stability of households and neighborhoods, impact on, 75–77; support for, 78, 84–85; Tenants’ Bill of Rights, component of, 165.
“Rent is Too Damn High,” 72, 80, 149–150
Rent-to-own aka land sale contracts, 26–27
Restrictive covenants, 25
Rolfe, Frank, 11
Romero, Oscar, 116
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 108
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 23, 108
Root Cause Research Center, 147
Rosette Neighborhood Village, 121
Ross, Stephen, 35
Rufo, Christopher, 63
Rush, Loretta, 54
Russell (Louisville neighborhood), 144
Rustin, Bayard, 118
Sacks, Jonathan, 126
Saint Augustine of Hippo, 124, 133
Saint Basil of Caesaria, 124, 134
Saint Gregory, 135
Saint Jerome, 124
Sanders, Bernie, 92
Sawyer, Don, 57
Scarlet E (impact of eviction on record), 1, 8–9, 53
Schlubach, Sebastian, 102, 104
Schwartz, Alex, 36, 40, 82, 94
Scotland, 109
Second Bill of Rights, 108
Section 8 Assistance, project-based and vouchers aka Housing Choice Vouchers, 17–18, 59, 68–69, 92
Shelley v. Kraemer, 26
Singapore, 13, 91, 105, 107, 136
Slabosky, Alex, 125–126, 128–129
Smith, Tina, 98
Smoketown (Louisville neighborhood), 143, 146
SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), 34, 68, 83
Social housing: generally, 94–99, 101, 111; international examples, 100–107, 111; US examples, 97–99. See also public housing
Social movements and housing, 84–85, 136–138, 166
Sonnwendviertel neighborhood (Vienna), 104
Source-of-income anti-discrimination laws, 69
South Africa, constitutional right to housing, 109
Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 117
St. Louis Rent Strike of 1969, 119, 137
St. Martin’s Episcopal Church, Charlotte NC, 114–116
Starwood, 78
Stegman, Michael, 89
Stockbridge Capital Group, 11
Subsidized housing; homeowners and landlords’ access to, 34–45, 163–164; impact, 33–34; low-income renters’ limited access, 16, 33–34, 68, 120, 165
Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017, 42
Tax policy and housing: capital gains on real estate, 37; depreciation of real estate, 37; estate tax exemptions, 43–44; generally, 33–45, 163–164; homeownership benefits, 39–42; like-kind aka 1031 exchanges, 43; opportunity zones, 42–43; pass-through income, 36; reforms needed, 44–45, 67–68; speculation on housing, taxation of, 67–68; state and local tax breaks, 39; stepped-up basis, 43–44
Taylor, Breonna, 139
Taylor, Keeangha-Yamahtta, 22, 26, 31, 41, 93, 137–138
Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act (TOPA), 95, 97
Tenants’ Bill of Rights, 54, 165
Tenant Union Federation, 85, 147, 149, 155–156, 161. See also Louisville Tenants Union; tenant unions
Tenant unions: alliances with labor unions, 160–162; Connecticut Tenant Union, 161–162; generally, 4–5, 85, 153–154; Louisville Tenant Union, 5, 138–152; social movements connection, 136–138, 166; Tenant Union Federation, 85, 147, 149, 155–156, 161
Torah, 58
Torres, Michael, 12
Truth, Sojourner, 116
Under the Bridge: The Criminalization of Homelessness (film), 57
Union for Reform Judaism, 114, 128
United Nations’ special rapporteur for housing, 19
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 13, 92, 108, 121
Universal Housing Vouchers, 68–69, 74, 165–166
Upzoning, 93
Uruguay, 106
US Centers for Disease Control Eviction Moratorium, 2, 54
US Department of Agriculture, 502 Direct Loan Program, 31–32
Veterans Administration, 14, 26, 31, 64, 107, 164
Vienna housing, 13, 15, 45, 100–105, 107, 110, 161
Volf, Miroslav, 134
Vouchers, Housing Choice aka Section 8, 17–18, 59, 68–69, 92