Freedom Now! Struggles for the Human Right to Housing in L.A. and Beyond is a collaboration between the Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA CAN) a grassroots social movement located in the heart of L.A.'s Skid Row along with other grassroots activists, artists, and social analysts. The reader is an effort to think about the housing crisis from Los Angeles to South Africa and understand why such an urgent global struggle has emerged demanding housing as a human right.