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Maria Foscarinis founded the National Homelessness Law Center (formerly known as the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty) in 1985 to mount a campaign for a federal response to the crisis which was just beginning to explode across the country. The Law Center won legal victories including the only major federal legislation addressing homelessness--now known and the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act--, upholding education rights for homeless children, converting vacant properties to housing, and combatting the criminalization of homelessness, while also laying the groundwork for the recognition of housing as a human right. She has been named a Human Rights Hero by the American Bar Association, and is a recipient of the Katharine and George Alexander Law Prize from Santa Clara University School of Law, the John Macy Award from the National Alliance to End Homelessness, the Public Interest Law Award from the Public Interest Foundation at Columbia Law School, and a Rockefeller Foundation Practitioner Residency in Bellagio, Italy. Foscarinis has been regularly quoted in media outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, Bloomberg, CNN, BBC, CCTV, and Al-Jazeera, among many others, and has contributed opinion pieces to influential publications including USA Today, the Christian Science Monitor, the Huffington Post, and The Hill. She teaches a seminar on Homelessness Law and Policy at Columbia Law School.
""This book is for every American who has walked past another human being sleeping outside and wondered, how did this happen? And Housing for All shows you, by guiding you down the long road of bad policy, blind neglect and outright hostility that brought us to where we are today, a nation with more than half a million people who have nowhere to stay on a given night. And where their mere existence has been criminalized. The stories recounted by Foscarinis, who spent decades on the front lines in the fight for housing as a human right, will enrage you. They might also spur you to act to help eliminate this shameful, self-inflicted societal wound. As Foscarinis notes, homelessness is ""not an accident. It's the result of deliberate policy choices made by people. We can make different ones.""--Pam Fessler, former NPR poverty correspondent ""Maria Foscarinis has been a leader in the fight to end homelessness since the mid-1980s. The issue in America reaches back to before 1929's Hoovervilles, but Maria's advocacy beginning in the Reagan years had led the way for countless other advocates. From her work on the 1987 McKinney-Vento Act, to her founding of the National Homelessness Law Center in 1989, all the way through to today, Maria has been tireless in her pursuit of justice for the most vulnerable Americans. And Housing for All is an important and inspiring book about an urgent social problem from a true authority.""--Peter Edelman, Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law and Public Policy at Georgetown Law Center and author of Not a Crime to Be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America and So Rich, So Poor: Why It's So Hard to End Poverty in America ""A vivid and sobering overview of the ongoing homelessness crisis in America, by one of the key activists leading the charge to end it. Maria Foscarinis' And Housing for All makes an impassioned argument that the right to housing should be--and in fact is--a fundamental human right. An important and eye-opening book.""--Gary Krist, New York Times bestselling author of The Mirage Factory, Empire of Sin, City of Scoundrels, and The White Cascade
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