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
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (Justice, Power, and Politics)
High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis
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)
Municipal Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Council Housing
Deck Rebellion by Sean  McAleerHousing a divided community by Charles Edward Bainbridge B...Home Improvement by JacobinGround Control by Anna MintonHousing as Intervention by Karen Kubey
On Housing
20 books — 3 voters
Confessions of a Section 8 Landlord by Sara  AvilesLenders & Landlords  by Nick ThorkelsonEvicted by Matthew DesmondSunbelt 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

Dark Age Ahead by Jane JacobsThe Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs101 Things I Learned in Urban Design School by Matthew FrederickVital Little Plans 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
26 books — 21 voters


Abhijit Naskar
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. ...more
Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

Accessibility in housing communities is an essential duty, not a negotiable option, for the complete and equitable inclusion of persons with disabilities in all walks of community life.
Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala, Understanding Accessibility

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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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