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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as housing)
avg rating 4.47 — 118,616 ratings — published 2016
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as housing)
avg rating 4.43 — 48,743 ratings — published 2017
Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as housing)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,805 ratings — published 2020
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as housing)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,714 ratings — published 2019
In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as housing)
avg rating 4.03 — 819 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 4.06 — 4,003 ratings — published 2017
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (Justice, Power, and Politics)
by (shelved 26 times as housing)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,326 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 — 1,563 ratings — published 2022
High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as housing)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,272 ratings — published 2018
Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as housing)
avg rating 4.38 — 623 ratings — published
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as housing)
avg rating 4.28 — 20,923 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 — 617 ratings — published 2009
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as housing)
avg rating 4.60 — 10,848 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 — 1,310 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 — 227 ratings — published
Municipal Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Council Housing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as housing)
avg rating 3.92 — 790 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 — 437 ratings — published 2022
Housing Policy in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as housing)
avg rating 4.10 — 134 ratings — published 2010
Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960 (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as housing)
avg rating 4.11 — 350 ratings — published 1983
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as housing)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,118 ratings — published 1985
Urban Warfare: Housing under the Empire of Finance (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as housing)
avg rating 4.23 — 155 ratings — published 2019
Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as housing)
avg rating 4.30 — 329 ratings — published 2017
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 3.88 — 56,360 ratings — published 2025
Neighborhood Defenders: Participatory Politics and America's Housing Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as housing)
avg rating 4.07 — 101 ratings — published
Modern Housing for America: Policy Struggles in the New Deal Era (Historical Studies of Urban America)
by (shelved 11 times as housing)
avg rating 4.15 — 34 ratings — published 1997
Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as housing)
avg rating 4.23 — 300 ratings — published 2024
Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as housing)
avg rating 4.05 — 960 ratings — published 2025
Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as housing)
avg rating 4.36 — 532 ratings — published
The Tenant Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as housing)
avg rating 4.22 — 445 ratings — published
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as housing)
avg rating 4.27 — 67,439 ratings — published 2023
The Rent Is Too Damn High (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as housing)
avg rating 4.03 — 794 ratings — published 2012
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 — 6,519 ratings — published 2011
Home Truths: Fixing Canada's Housing Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as housing)
avg rating 4.23 — 102 ratings — published
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as housing)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,105 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 — 188 ratings — published 2020
Zoned in the USA: The Origins and Implications of American Land-Use Regulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as housing)
avg rating 4.00 — 139 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 — 9,153 ratings — published 2012
On the Housing Crisis: Land, Development, Democracy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.31 — 296 ratings — published
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.17 — 5,927 ratings — published 2023
Missing Middle Housing: Thinking Big and Building Small to Respond to Today's Housing Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.16 — 159 ratings — published 2020
Why Can't You Afford a Home? (The Future of Capitalism)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.18 — 158 ratings — published
Homewreckers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.24 — 572 ratings — published 2019
The Housing Question (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.03 — 404 ratings — published 1887
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 4.03 — 2,149 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 — 16,364 ratings — published 1991
A History of Housing in New York City (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.06 — 48 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 — 4,697 ratings — published 1993
The Affordable Housing Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as housing)
avg rating 4.24 — 17 ratings — published 2012
“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 of communism contains catastrophic failures. Universal rights are not about everyone receiving the same life, but refusing to deny anyone the minimum safety required to live. Some needs like education are too important to leave entirely to individual wealth. The word “free” does not mean the housing market disappears. Public education did not abolish private schools. It is not a ceiling placed over anyone’s life. Rights function more as the floor beneath your feet. When you remove the struggle of paying to sleep indoors, people actually gain the leverage to choose their work, take risks, fix their health, or build a business.”
― The Price of Being Human
― The Price of Being Human
“Universal shelter costs money and effort, but what have we done with our money and effort? We built spacecraft to travel beyond our Earth. The atom has been split. We can forecast the weather. We can study our own DNA. We have designed with immense precision everything from deep-sea submarines to hypersonic missiles. We built the internet, allowing us to communicate across the planet and send money in seconds. Humanity has proved it can coordinate labor, land, financing, and infrastructure at enormous scale. The question is: where do we apply ourselves? Is it toward prestige and excess or need and protection?”
― The Price of Being Human
― The Price of Being Human
