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How the Philly #HousingNow Encampment Movement Prompts Us to Reimagine a Right to Contract, Part 2
In today’s post I explore how the success of those encampments presents a vision of contracting that counters the traditional Lochner-esque “freedom of contract” through the occupation and democratization of the right to contract which, under a commodified housing system, ultimately enlivens the right to housing.