The Right To Live

The Right to Live: Housing, Human Survival, and the National Demand for Repair examines housing as a condition of human survival, not merely a market product. Jawanna Dean argues that the right to life has limited meaning when people cannot secure the place where life is supposed to happen. The book follows the pressure outward from the human being into the systems built around shelter: money, property value, assessment, appraisal, mortgage lending, equity, escrow, insurance, Wall Street, prison, taxation, and national repair.
It challenges the treatment of housing as collateral, investment inventory, rental yield, taxable value, and financial product while the person inside the home absorbs the burden. Dean presents a repair framework grounded in housing as a human right, Reparations for All, the $1 principle, the national survival model, a 10% flat non-refundable tax, and The One Key Strategy. The result is a direct argument for reorganizing public policy around the material conditions required for life.
The Right to Live is a serious nonfiction work on housing justice, public policy, civil rights, economic legitimacy, and the national demand to place human survival before institutional extraction.