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 (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
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)
Confessions of a Section 8 Landlord by Sara  AvilesEvicted by Matthew DesmondLenders & Landlords  by Nick ThorkelsonWhere Am I Going to Go? Intersectional Approaches to Ending L... by Alex Abramovich and Jama Sh...Sunbelt Blues by Andrew Ross
Housing and Homelessness
12 books — 3 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

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 — 86 voters
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

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

Charlie Jane Anders
Everyone deserves a place to live--including low-income people and the unhoused. Poverty shouldn't be a crime. I'm tired of watching people of color and queers be driven away from the places they helped to build. We need to change who we think of as a stakeholder. ...more
Charlie Jane Anders, Lessons in Magic and Disaster

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