Book Talk: A Right to Housing? with Samuel Stein
Wednesday, November 4, 2026
6:00pm – 8:00pm
Book Talk: A Right to Housing?
Wednesday, November 4, 6–8 pm
303 Bond Street, Brooklyn
Join the AIA Brooklyn Housing Committee for an evening with author Samuel Stein, in conversation with Andrew Brown, Director of Programs, Van Alen Institute, on the urgent question of housing as a right. Stein will introduce his new book A Right to Housing? and its untraditional structure with a short reading, followed by a discussion on the issues and questions the book raises — from the politics of housing policy to what a genuine right to housing could look like in practice. Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.
About A Right to Housing?
In the fight for housing, we are caught between the world we know and the world we want. This book is both a road map and a reckoning. Drawing on his own experience of on-the-ground organizing, Samuel Stein presents practical policies for enacting a right to shelter, a right to a home, and a right to the city itself.
With raw honesty, he then explores why these visions founder on the rocks of political reality. He reveals the forces blocking our path—from the power of real estate capital to the inadequacy of our institutions—and captures the complex feelings of a left that has lost faith in the future.