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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as housing)
avg rating 4.47 — 114,950 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 — 46,572 ratings — published 2017
Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as housing)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,762 ratings — published 2020
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as housing)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,669 ratings — published 2019
In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as housing)
avg rating 4.04 — 773 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 — 3,847 ratings — published 2017
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as housing)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,410 ratings — published 2022
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 4.26 — 1,304 ratings — published 2019
High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 20 times as housing)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,171 ratings — published 2018
Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as housing)
avg rating 4.35 — 605 ratings — published 2009
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as housing)
avg rating 4.29 — 20,131 ratings — published 1961
Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as housing)
avg rating 4.42 — 518 ratings — published
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as housing)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,191 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 — 220 ratings — published
Municipal Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Council Housing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as housing)
avg rating 3.92 — 768 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 — 424 ratings — published 2022
Housing Policy in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as housing)
avg rating 4.11 — 131 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 — 346 ratings — published 1983
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as housing)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,084 ratings — published 1985
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as housing)
avg rating 4.61 — 5,496 ratings — published 2025
Urban Warfare: Housing under the Empire of Finance (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as housing)
avg rating 4.24 — 150 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 4.04 — 122 ratings — published 2009
Neighborhood Defenders: Participatory Politics and America's Housing Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as housing)
avg rating 4.05 — 98 ratings — published
Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as housing)
avg rating 4.28 — 316 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 3.92 — 43,959 ratings — published 2025
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as housing)
avg rating 4.27 — 63,030 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 3.92 — 6,419 ratings — published 2011
Home Truths: Fixing Canada's Housing Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as housing)
avg rating 4.28 — 87 ratings — published
Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as housing)
avg rating 4.23 — 275 ratings — published 2024
The Voucher Promise: "Section 8" and the Fate of an American Neighborhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as housing)
avg rating 4.27 — 179 ratings — published 2020
The Rent Is Too Damn High (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as housing)
avg rating 4.03 — 793 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 4.00 — 135 ratings — published 2014
The Affordable Housing Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.24 — 17 ratings — published 2012
On the Housing Crisis: Land, Development, Democracy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.30 — 266 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 — 465 ratings — published
The Tenant Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.23 — 416 ratings — published
Tenants: The People on the Frontline of Britain's Housing Emergency (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.36 — 695 ratings — published
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,950 ratings — published
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 — 2,121 ratings — published 2016
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.32 — 8,770 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 — 16,147 ratings — published 1991
A History of Housing in New York City (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.02 — 46 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 — 4,599 ratings — published 1993
Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as housing)
avg rating 4.08 — 810 ratings — published 2025
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as housing)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,349 ratings — published 2023
Brave New Home: Our Future in Smarter, Simpler, Happier Housing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as housing)
avg rating 3.71 — 305 ratings — published 2020
“It was the American middle class. No one's house cost more than two or three year's salary, and I doubt the spread in annual wages (except for the osteopath) exceeded more than five thousand dollars. And other than the doctor (who made house calls), the store managers, the minister, the salesman, and the banker, everyone belonged to a union. That meant they worked a forty-hour week, had the entire weekend off (plus two to four weeks' paid vacation in the summer), comprehensive medical benefits, and job security. In return for all that, the country became the most productive in the world and in our little neighborhood it meant your furnace was always working, your kids could be dropped off at the neighbors without notice, you could run next door anytime to borrow a half-dozen eggs, and the doors to all the homes were never locked -- because who would need to steal anything if they already had all that they needed?”
― Here Comes Trouble
― Here Comes Trouble
“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. Focus on universal basic essentials, not universal basic income.”
― Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth
― Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth
