Slumlord

Slumlord examines housing neglect as a structural condition of American life. The book argues that shelter cannot be treated as a speculative asset while residents absorb unsafe conditions, hidden fees, repair delays, court pressure, inflated valuation, and displacement risk. Jawanna Dean advances a direct housing doctrine: residential shelter exists for human use. Used residential property is a depreciating shelter asset.
Regulated property-access fees must be earned through maintained habitability, consolidated charges, affordability compliance, and enforceable public standards. A dwelling that fails human-use standards should face corrective valuation, public record consequences, and Housing Salvage Title review. This book analyzes slums, slumlords, tenant rights, landlord responsibilities, courts, eviction, collection power, hidden fees, affordability, property valuation, public enforcement, and the relationship between housing control and human freedom.
Slumlord is written for readers concerned with housing justice, tenant protection, landlord accountability, public policy, legal reform, real estate ethics, urban conditions, economic survival, and the future of shelter law.