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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as housing)
avg rating 4.47 — 119,290 ratings — published 2016
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as housing)
avg rating 4.43 — 49,214 ratings — published 2017
Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as housing)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,815 ratings — published 2020
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as housing)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,722 ratings — published 2019
In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as housing)
avg rating 4.02 — 833 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 — 4,031 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 — 1,334 ratings — published 2019
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as housing)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,592 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 — 2,296 ratings — published 2018
Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as housing)
avg rating 4.38 — 638 ratings — published
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as housing)
avg rating 4.28 — 21,077 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 — 620 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 — 11,757 ratings — published 2025
Municipal Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Council Housing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as housing)
avg rating 3.92 — 798 ratings — published 2018
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as housing)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,331 ratings — published 2022
The Affordable City: Strategies for Putting Housing Within Reach (and Keeping it There)
by (shelved 16 times as housing)
avg rating 4.20 — 232 ratings — published
Fixer-Upper: How to Repair America's Broken Housing Systems (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as housing)
avg rating 3.93 — 440 ratings — published 2022
Urban Warfare: Housing under the Empire of Finance (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as housing)
avg rating 4.23 — 156 ratings — published 2019
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 — 354 ratings — published 1983
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as housing)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,122 ratings — published 1985
Abundance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as housing)
avg rating 3.87 — 58,029 ratings — published 2025
Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as housing)
avg rating 4.23 — 302 ratings — published 2024
Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as housing)
avg rating 4.30 — 331 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 — 125 ratings — published 2009
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 4.17 — 35 ratings — published 1997
The Tenant Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as housing)
avg rating 4.21 — 455 ratings — published
Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as housing)
avg rating 4.06 — 987 ratings — published 2025
Home Truths: Fixing Canada's Housing Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as housing)
avg rating 4.23 — 105 ratings — published
Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as housing)
avg rating 4.36 — 546 ratings — published
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as housing)
avg rating 4.27 — 68,139 ratings — published 2023
The Rent Is Too Damn High (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as housing)
avg rating 4.03 — 793 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 — 6,546 ratings — published 2011
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as housing)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,130 ratings — published
The Voucher Promise: "Section 8" and the Fate of an American Neighborhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as housing)
avg rating 4.26 — 191 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 — 140 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 — 9,209 ratings — published 2012
On the Housing Crisis: Land, Development, Democracy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.31 — 298 ratings — published
Our Crumbling Foundation: How We Solve Canada's Housing Crisis (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.01 — 505 ratings — published 2024
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.17 — 6,024 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 — 724 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 4.16 — 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 — 577 ratings — published 2019
The Housing Question (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.02 — 412 ratings — published 1887
All That Is Solid: The Great Housing Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 3.55 — 143 ratings — published 2014
The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,160 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 — 16,407 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
“Myth: US housing market is in recovery. Fact: Big banks have been hiding their bloated home inventory, seized by virtue of home foreclosures.”
― Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
― Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
“Shelter is strangely absent from the broader conversation about universal human rights. Society moved it from a moral category into an economic incentive. While society has accepted it is wrong to leave anyone to die of thirst, it has not extended that same instinct to permanent housing. To governments, investors, and landlords, shelter feels like something you must merit because they see profit. Their thinking is, however, flawed because food and water both exist to satisfy the same human biology. They’re changing the moral rule based on the size of the object instead of the nature of the need. A need does not become less essential simply because it is harder to guarantee.”
― The Price of Being Human
― The Price of Being Human
