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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as housing)
avg rating 4.47 — 117,847 ratings — published 2016
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as housing)
avg rating 4.43 — 48,229 ratings — published 2017
Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as housing)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,793 ratings — published 2020
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as housing)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,704 ratings — published 2019
In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as housing)
avg rating 4.03 — 810 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 — 3,962 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 — 1,321 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 — 1,536 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 — 2,250 ratings — published 2018
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as housing)
avg rating 4.29 — 20,753 ratings — published 1961
Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as housing)
avg rating 4.40 — 602 ratings — published
Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as housing)
avg rating 4.36 — 614 ratings — published 2009
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as housing)
avg rating 4.60 — 9,752 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 4.11 — 1,289 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 — 226 ratings — published
Municipal Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Council Housing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as housing)
avg rating 3.92 — 786 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 — 433 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 — 349 ratings — published 1983
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as housing)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,108 ratings — published 1985
Urban Warfare: Housing under the Empire of Finance (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as housing)
avg rating 4.23 — 155 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 3.88 — 54,409 ratings — published 2025
Neighborhood Defenders: Participatory Politics and America's Housing Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as housing)
avg rating 4.06 — 100 ratings — published
Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as housing)
avg rating 4.30 — 328 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 4.15 — 34 ratings — published 1997
Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as housing)
avg rating 4.24 — 293 ratings — published 2024
The Tenant Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as housing)
avg rating 4.23 — 439 ratings — published
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as housing)
avg rating 4.27 — 66,634 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 — 6,495 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 4.05 — 931 ratings — published 2025
Home Truths: Fixing Canada's Housing Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as housing)
avg rating 4.23 — 99 ratings — published
Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as housing)
avg rating 4.36 — 520 ratings — published
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as housing)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,081 ratings — published
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 — 9,081 ratings — published 2012
On the Housing Crisis: Land, Development, Democracy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.31 — 286 ratings — published
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,790 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 — 718 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 4.16 — 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 — 570 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 4.03 — 2,142 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 — 16,311 ratings — published 1991
A History of Housing in New York City (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.04 — 47 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 — 4,664 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
“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
