Goodreads Choice Awards Opening Round
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
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
Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
Municipal Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Council Housing
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
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Lists

Mayor of the Tenderloin by Alison OwingsThe Quest for College Heights by Sherman LewisRace for Profit by Keeanga-Yamahtta TaylorA World More Concrete by Nathan Daniel Beau ConnollyWhere We Want to Live by Ryan Gravel
American Housing and Land Use-related (nonfiction)
73 books — 13 voters
Housing a divided community by Charles Edward Bainbridge B...Home Improvement by JacobinDeck Rebellion by Sean McAleerPsychological Richness As Breakthrough by Hubert J.M. HermansHousing as Intervention by Karen Kubey
On Housing
21 books — 4 voters

Evicted by Matthew DesmondLenders & Landlords by Nick ThorkelsonConfessions of a Section 8 Landlord by Sara AvilesSunbelt 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
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

Buses Are a Comin' by Charles PersonThe Color of Law by Richard RothsteinWithout Sanctuary by James AllenSegregating Sound by Karl Hagstrom MillerTHE TRIAL OF SHERIFF JOSEPH F. SHIPP by James Ciccone
Segregation in the United States (nonfiction)
193 books — 30 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
106 books — 85 voters

Quotes Tagged “Housing”

Kristian Ventura
“ Eliminating rent does not mean people stop working at all. They instead gain the freedom to choose what work they want to do. The debate is not capitalism versus communism, but whether a basic requirement of being human should be conditional on one’s ability to pay. The reaction of associating free shelter with communism is not a rebuttal. Many label it communism so they can refuse to engage with it. However, providing housing does not control people’s time or choice. It frees both. The history ...more ”
― Kristian Ventura, The Price of Being Human
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Kristian Ventura
“ Civilization is about reducing the parts of survival that are no longer necessary. What kind of protection leaves people without a place to sleep? ”
― Kristian Ventura, The Price of Being Human
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Videos Tagged “Housing”

North: The Future of Post-Climate America (Trailer)
North: The Future of Post-Climate America (Trailer)
Q&A: Michael Lewis - The Big Short
Q&A: Michael Lewis - The Big Short
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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.
6 members, last active 6 years ago