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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as housing)
avg rating 4.47 — 114,957 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 4.44 — 46,579 ratings — published 2017
Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as housing)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,762 ratings — published 2020
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as housing)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,669 ratings — published 2019
In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as housing)
avg rating 4.04 — 773 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 4.07 — 3,847 ratings — published 2017
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as housing)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,410 ratings — published 2022
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 4.26 — 1,304 ratings — published 2019
High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 20 times as housing)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,171 ratings — published 2018
Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as housing)
avg rating 4.35 — 605 ratings — published 2009
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as housing)
avg rating 4.29 — 20,133 ratings — published 1961
Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as housing)
avg rating 4.42 — 518 ratings — published
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as housing)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,191 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 — 220 ratings — published
Municipal Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Council Housing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as housing)
avg rating 3.92 — 768 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 — 424 ratings — published 2022
Housing Policy in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as housing)
avg rating 4.11 — 131 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 — 346 ratings — published 1983
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as housing)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,084 ratings — published 1985
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as housing)
avg rating 4.61 — 5,507 ratings — published 2025
Urban Warfare: Housing under the Empire of Finance (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as housing)
avg rating 4.24 — 150 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 4.04 — 122 ratings — published 2009
Neighborhood Defenders: Participatory Politics and America's Housing Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as housing)
avg rating 4.05 — 98 ratings — published
Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as housing)
avg rating 4.28 — 316 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
Abundance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as housing)
avg rating 3.92 — 43,984 ratings — published 2025
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as housing)
avg rating 4.27 — 63,045 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 3.92 — 6,419 ratings — published 2011
Home Truths: Fixing Canada's Housing Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as housing)
avg rating 4.28 — 87 ratings — published
Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as housing)
avg rating 4.23 — 275 ratings — published 2024
The Voucher Promise: "Section 8" and the Fate of an American Neighborhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as housing)
avg rating 4.27 — 179 ratings — published 2020
The Rent Is Too Damn High (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as housing)
avg rating 4.03 — 793 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 4.00 — 135 ratings — published 2014
The Affordable Housing Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.24 — 17 ratings — published 2012
On the Housing Crisis: Land, Development, Democracy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.30 — 267 ratings — published
Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.38 — 465 ratings — published
The Tenant Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.23 — 416 ratings — published
Tenants: The People on the Frontline of Britain's Housing Emergency (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.36 — 695 ratings — published
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,950 ratings — published
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 — 563 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 — 2,121 ratings — published 2016
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.32 — 8,772 ratings — published 2012
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 — 16,147 ratings — published 1991
A History of Housing in New York City (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.02 — 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 4.05 — 4,599 ratings — published 1993
Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as housing)
avg rating 4.08 — 810 ratings — published 2025
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as housing)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,351 ratings — published 2023
Brave New Home: Our Future in Smarter, Simpler, Happier Housing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as housing)
avg rating 3.71 — 305 ratings — published 2020
“The call to action for housing owner associations is clear: abandon ingrained discriminatory mindsets and commit to facilitating an environment where people with disabilities can enjoy full and equal participation in community activities.”
― Understanding Accessibility
― Understanding Accessibility
“Everyone deserves a place to live--including low-income people and the unhoused. Poverty shouldn't be a crime. I'm tired of watching people of color and queers be driven away from the places they helped to build. We need to change who we think of as a stakeholder.”
― Lessons in Magic and Disaster
― Lessons in Magic and Disaster
