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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as housing)
avg rating 4.47 — 116,713 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 4.43 — 47,592 ratings — published 2017
Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as housing)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,786 ratings — published 2020
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as housing)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,689 ratings — published 2019
In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as housing)
avg rating 4.03 — 786 ratings — published 2016
How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as housing)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,919 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 — 1,314 ratings — published 2019
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as housing)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,495 ratings — published 2022
High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as housing)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,215 ratings — published 2018
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as housing)
avg rating 4.29 — 20,498 ratings — published 1961
Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as housing)
avg rating 4.36 — 609 ratings — published 2009
Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as housing)
avg rating 4.41 — 566 ratings — published
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
by (shelved 16 times as housing)
avg rating 4.60 — 8,077 ratings — published 2025
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as housing)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,249 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 — 224 ratings — published
Municipal Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Council Housing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as housing)
avg rating 3.92 — 776 ratings — published 2018
Fixer-Upper: How to Repair America's Broken Housing Systems (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as housing)
avg rating 3.93 — 428 ratings — published 2022
Housing Policy in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as housing)
avg rating 4.11 — 133 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 — 2,095 ratings — published 1985
Urban Warfare: Housing under the Empire of Finance (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as housing)
avg rating 4.24 — 152 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
Abundance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as housing)
avg rating 3.89 — 51,032 ratings — published 2025
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 — 322 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
Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as housing)
avg rating 4.23 — 290 ratings — published 2024
Home Truths: Fixing Canada's Housing Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as housing)
avg rating 4.23 — 98 ratings — published
The Tenant Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as housing)
avg rating 4.22 — 432 ratings — published
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as housing)
avg rating 4.27 — 65,400 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 — 6,465 ratings — published 2011
Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as housing)
avg rating 4.06 — 890 ratings — published 2025
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as housing)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,023 ratings — published
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
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as housing)
avg rating 4.31 — 8,950 ratings — published 2012
On the Housing Crisis: Land, Development, Democracy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.30 — 279 ratings — published
Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.37 — 498 ratings — published
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,596 ratings — published 2023
Tenants: The People on the Frontline of Britain's Housing Emergency (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.36 — 711 ratings — published
The Voucher Promise: "Section 8" and the Fate of an American Neighborhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.27 — 187 ratings — published 2020
Missing Middle Housing: Thinking Big and Building Small to Respond to Today's Housing Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.17 — 157 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 — 564 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 — 2,130 ratings — published 2016
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 — 16,261 ratings — published 1991
A History of Housing in New York City (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.07 — 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 4.04 — 4,639 ratings — published 1993
The Affordable Housing Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as housing)
avg rating 4.24 — 17 ratings — published 2012
“Imagine a community where everyone truly belongs. Housing owners' associations can make this a reality by ensuring that people with disabilities have full access to social and cultural activities within their communities.”
― Understanding Accessibility
― Understanding Accessibility
“To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand why that family would oppose anything that could potentially lower its property values, like a proposal to develop an affordable housing complex in the neighborhood.”
― Poverty, by America
― Poverty, by America
