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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as housing)
avg rating 4.47 — 115,791 ratings — published 2016
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as housing)
avg rating 4.44 — 47,066 ratings — published 2017
Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as housing)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,775 ratings — published 2020
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as housing)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,678 ratings — published 2019
In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as housing)
avg rating 4.04 — 780 ratings — published 2016
How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as housing)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,878 ratings — published 2017
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (Justice, Power, and Politics)
by (shelved 25 times as housing)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,310 ratings — published 2019
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as housing)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,457 ratings — published 2022
High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 20 times as housing)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,188 ratings — published 2018
Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as housing)
avg rating 4.36 — 608 ratings — published 2009
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as housing)
avg rating 4.29 — 20,308 ratings — published 1961
Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as housing)
avg rating 4.41 — 543 ratings — published
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as housing)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,219 ratings — published 2022
The Affordable City: Strategies for Putting Housing Within Reach (and Keeping it There)
by (shelved 16 times as housing)
avg rating 4.21 — 222 ratings — published
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as housing)
avg rating 4.60 — 6,700 ratings — published 2025
Municipal Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Council Housing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as housing)
avg rating 3.92 — 773 ratings — published 2018
Fixer-Upper: How to Repair America's Broken Housing Systems (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as housing)
avg rating 3.92 — 427 ratings — published 2022
Housing Policy in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as housing)
avg rating 4.10 — 132 ratings — published 2010
Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960 (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as housing)
avg rating 4.10 — 348 ratings — published 1983
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as housing)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,088 ratings — published 1985
Urban Warfare: Housing under the Empire of Finance (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as housing)
avg rating 4.24 — 151 ratings — published 2019
Blueprint for Disaster: The Unraveling of Chicago Public Housing (Historical Studies of Urban America)
by (shelved 12 times as housing)
avg rating 4.05 — 124 ratings — published 2009
Neighborhood Defenders: Participatory Politics and America's Housing Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as housing)
avg rating 4.06 — 99 ratings — published
Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as housing)
avg rating 4.29 — 320 ratings — published 2017
Modern Housing for America: Policy Struggles in the New Deal Era (Historical Studies of Urban America)
by (shelved 11 times as housing)
avg rating 4.12 — 33 ratings — published 1997
Abundance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as housing)
avg rating 3.91 — 47,399 ratings — published 2025
Home Truths: Fixing Canada's Housing Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as housing)
avg rating 4.29 — 92 ratings — published
Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as housing)
avg rating 4.22 — 282 ratings — published 2024
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as housing)
avg rating 4.27 — 64,232 ratings — published 2023
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as housing)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,448 ratings — published 2011
The Tenant Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as housing)
avg rating 4.23 — 421 ratings — published
The Voucher Promise: "Section 8" and the Fate of an American Neighborhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as housing)
avg rating 4.27 — 181 ratings — published 2020
The Rent Is Too Damn High (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as housing)
avg rating 4.03 — 794 ratings — published 2012
Zoned in the USA: The Origins and Implications of American Land-Use Regulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as housing)
avg rating 4.01 — 137 ratings — published 2014
The Affordable Housing Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.24 — 17 ratings — published 2012
Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.06 — 851 ratings — published 2025
On the Housing Crisis: Land, Development, Democracy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.30 — 273 ratings — published
Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.38 — 481 ratings — published
Tenants: The People on the Frontline of Britain's Housing Emergency (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.36 — 705 ratings — published
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,984 ratings — published
Missing Middle Housing: Thinking Big and Building Small to Respond to Today's Housing Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.18 — 156 ratings — published 2020
Why Can't You Afford a Home? (The Future of Capitalism)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.18 — 157 ratings — published
Homewreckers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.24 — 563 ratings — published 2019
All That Is Solid: The Great Housing Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 3.55 — 144 ratings — published 2014
The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,125 ratings — published 2016
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.31 — 8,867 ratings — published 2012
There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.30 — 16,202 ratings — published 1991
A History of Housing in New York City (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.04 — 47 ratings — published 1990
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,610 ratings — published 1993
Our Crumbling Foundation: How We Solve Canada's Housing Crisis (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as housing)
avg rating 4.02 — 476 ratings — published 2024
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