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Endorsements: Book endorsements for Making Housing Happen: Faith Based Affordable Housing Models "An important book on an urgent topic. May the church answer this powerful call to action." --Ronald J. Sider -President, Evangelicals for Social Action "Jill Shook has collected wise and astute commentary from the experts in the field of housing. Together they offer seldom considered theological and biblical insights that we need to motivate us to address a crisis in America. Church people need to do something about this crisis and this book will aid them immensely if they are willing to take up the challenge outlined in these pages." --Tony Campolo, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus Eastern University St. Davids, PA This is the best book I’ve read on housing for years, probably since Bowerly’s classic The Poor House (Southern Illinois University Press). The issues emerge with clarity. The amazing range of resources and documentation is superb. Above all, the theological vision comes with power and passion. Somehow Shook has gotten some of the most experienced people in the whole urban world to share their practical and inspiring stories in successive chapters, making it a must read for anyone serving our Lord in cities today. --Ray Bakke “The lack of affordable housing is one of the major contributing factors to poverty in the U.S. Making Housing Happen collects the stories of diverse local faith-based programs that are making a difference in their communities. I commend it to all Christians looking for ways to work at improving the conditions of people in poverty – which should be all Christians.” -- Jim Wallis Making Housing Happen is an excellent and greatly needed text! It is a book that will be most welcome in many circles of readers who care about the housing crisis in America.Besides providing a solid historical, theological, and human rights rationale for affordable housing, what makes this book special is its comprehensive and paradigmatic (models) of faith-based and church oriented approaches for a housing ministry. Its in-depth faith-filled stories and testimonies of successful housing ministries should prove inspirational, instructive, and challenging to all Congregations endeavoring to "Seek the Peace of the City" (Jer.29:7). Rev. Eldin Villafane, Ph.D. Professor of Christian Social Ethics Center for Urban Ministerial Education (CUME), Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Boston, MA An invitation to imagine how the provision of safe, affordable, energy-efficient, and human-scale housing might be liberated from the dictatorship of market forces to serve as a sign of God's new order. I can think of few issues more urgent, and few books which interpret it with such theological wisdom. Richard Slimbach Azusa Pacific University "In this volume, Jill Shook brings together information about the breadth and severity of our national shortage of affordable housing with the biblical themes and mandates that make this very much the church's business. A wealth of contributors of diverse talents and broad experience share the stories of successful, church-based projects to provide alternatives, along with the insights gained therein. It reminds one of the Johannine admonition, "Let us love not in words on the tongue, but in deed and truth." Sondra Wheeler Martha Ashby Carr Professor of Christian Ethics Wesley Theological Seminary Washington, D.C. Most Americans, particularly those in the religious sector, would be deeply moved to learn that 1.37 million American children are homeless. It is indeed a vulgar society that does not safeguard its young. Coming straight from the Word of life, Jill Shook shakes the foundations of our lives in "Making Housing Happen," a work that moves from description of the problem to prescription for the problem. Ours is not a lack of know-how so much as a lack of will. if we will it, the Creator will breathe into the clay of commitment the wherewithal to make a garden existence. Jill Shook invites us to inhale. Rev. Cecil L. "Chip" Murray Minister Emeritus of First A.M.E. Church, Los Angeles Tanzy Chair of Christian Ethics at the University of Southern California
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