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
Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis
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)
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
Confessions of a Section 8 Landlord by Sara  AvilesLenders & Landlords  by Nick ThorkelsonEvicted by Matthew DesmondSunbelt Blues by Andrew RossWhere Am I Going to Go? Intersectional Approaches to Ending L... by Alex Abramovich and Jama Sh...
Housing and Homelessness
12 books — 3 voters
Dark Age Ahead by Jane JacobsThe Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs101 Things I Learned in Urban Design School by Matthew FrederickVital Little Plans by Jane JacobsThe Economy of Cities by Jane Jacobs
Jane Jacobs
17 books — 4 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


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

Kristin Hannah
any house they’d chosen would have become the very thing they sought
Kristin Hannah, Magic Hour

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