Housing


Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State
In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis
How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (Justice, Power, and Politics)
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America
Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
The Affordable City: Strategies for Putting Housing Within Reach (and Keeping it There)
Psychological Richness As Breakthrough by Hubert J.M. HermansDeck Rebellion by Sean  McAleerHousing a divided community by Charles Edward Bainbridge B...Home Improvement by JacobinGround Control by Anna Minton
On Housing
21 books — 4 voters
Dark Age Ahead by Jane Jacobs101 Things I Learned in Urban Design School by Matthew FrederickVital Little Plans by Jane JacobsThe Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane JacobsThe Economy of Cities by Jane Jacobs
Jane Jacobs
17 books — 4 voters

All the Devils are Here by Bethany McLeanThis Changes Everything by Naomi KleinThe Big Short by Michael   LewisFool's Gold by Gillian TettToo Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin
Crash of 2008
27 books — 22 voters
Making the Second Ghetto by Arnold R. HirschBlueprint for Disaster by D. Bradford HuntAmerican Project by VenkateshOff the Books by Sudhir VenkateshGang Leader for a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh
Chicago Housing (nonfiction)
17 books — 1 voter

The two-story dwellings of this city are, beyond all question, the best, as a system, not only owing to the single family ideas they represent, but because their cost is within the reach of all who desire to own their own homes. They have done more to elevate and to make a better home life than any other known influence. They typify a higher civilization, as well as a truer idea of American home life, and are better, purer, sweeter than any tenement house systems that ever existed. They are what ...more
Frank H. Taylor

Decoupling the housing market from speculation and setting up a separate financing model would be needed. The current out-of-date corporate model needs attention.
Gordon Roddick

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