Defending the right to a home
Subtitle: the power of anti-poverty lawyers
By: Beth Harris.
Series: Law, justice, and power
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: Homelessness -- Law and legislation -- United States; Homeless persons -- Civil rights -- United States; Legal assistance to the poor -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Litigation as the road home; title: National foundation for right-to-home claims; title: Local contexts for defending homeless families; title: Legal frames, judicial intervention, and agenda setting; title: Legalizing implementation : governing homelessness; title: Coalitions for the homeless and their lawyers; title: The cases : bringing poverty 'home' through legal action; title: Right-to-home challenge to market justice.