2026 Reading Challenge
Genres

Housing


Housing Books

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
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (Justice, Power, and Politics)
How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Fixer-Upper: How to Repair America's Broken Housing Systems
Municipal Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Council Housing
Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis
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Lists

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
Technological Slavery by Theodore John KaczynskiAnti-Tech Revolution by Theodore John KaczynskiIndustrial Society and Its Future by Theodore John KaczynskiCollapse by Jared DiamondPapyrus by John Gaudet
Green Politics
104 books — 87 voters

Mayor of the Tenderloin by Alison OwingsRace for Profit by Keeanga-Yamahtta TaylorA World More Concrete by Nathan Daniel Beau ConnollyWhere We Want to Live by Ryan GravelOne Billion Americans by Matthew Yglesias
American Housing and Land Use-related (nonfiction)
70 books — 9 voters
Deck Rebellion by Sean McAleerHousing a divided community by Charles Edward Bainbridge B...Home Improvement by JacobinGround Control by Anna MintonHousing as Intervention by Karen Kubey
On Housing
20 books — 3 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
26 books — 21 voters
Buses Are a Comin' by Charles PersonThe Color of Law by Richard RothsteinWithout Sanctuary by James AllenSegregating Sound by Karl Hagstrom MillerMedical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington
Segregation in the United States (nonfiction)
186 books — 22 voters

Quotes Tagged “Housing”

Abhijit Naskar
“ Welfare doesn't mean free money, welfare means food, housing, healthcare and education - any government that fails to provide the essentials to its citizens forfeits its right to office. ...more ”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth
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Ziad K. Abdelnour
“ Myth: US housing market is in recovery. Fact: Big banks have been hiding their bloated home inventory, seized by virtue of home foreclosures. ”
― Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
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Videos Tagged “Housing”

Dalton Conley and Matt Desmond discuss his research on eviction patterns and the housing crisis
Dalton Conley and Matt Desmond discuss his research on eviction patterns and the housing crisis
Kim Phillips-Fein: "Invisible Hands"
Kim Phillips-Fein: "Invisible Hands"
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Groups Tagged "Housing"

BC Human Rights Commissioner's Book Club Welcome to the B.C. Human Rights Commissioner’s Book Club. Stories can be transformative. They…more
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DUSP MCPs Book recommendations and discussion for our book club.
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