The Danger Zone Is Everywhere (eBook)

Contents

Foreword by Robin D. G. Kelley
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Housing, Health, and Proximity to Toxicity

PART I: WHO HURTS?
1 Save the Children: Precautionary Principles for Housing and Health Justice
2 "Livin' in the Red": Housing as a Health Problem and Health as a Housing Problem
3 If You're Ready: Responding to Health and Housing Emergencies

PART II: WHAT HURTS?
4 Cash in Your Face: Appraisals, Assessments, and Predatory Extraction
5 If It Ain't One Thing, It's Another: Gender, Housing, Health, and Mass Incarceration
6 Born under a Bad Sign: Race-Based Risk Assessment in Insurance, Housing, and Health

PART III: WHAT HELPS?
7 Wade in the Water: An Active Engaged Public Sphere for Health and Housing Justice
8 Everything Is Everything: Health and Housing as Human Rights and Public Goods
9 Hard Times (No One Knows Better Than I): The Bitter but Beautiful Struggle

Notes
Works Cited
Index