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Housing Books
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as housing)
avg rating 4.47 — 113,699 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 4.44 — 45,864 ratings — published 2017
Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as housing)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,752 ratings — published 2020
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as housing)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,655 ratings — published 2019
In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as housing)
avg rating 4.04 — 759 ratings — published 2016
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 — 1,293 ratings — published 2019
How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as housing)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,789 ratings — published 2017
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as housing)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,373 ratings — published 2022
High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 20 times as housing)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,138 ratings — published 2018
Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as housing)
avg rating 4.35 — 606 ratings — published 2009
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as housing)
avg rating 4.29 — 19,904 ratings — published 1961
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as housing)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,172 ratings — published 2022
Fixer-Upper: How to Repair America's Broken Housing Systems (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as housing)
avg rating 3.93 — 421 ratings — published 2022
Municipal Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Council Housing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as housing)
avg rating 3.92 — 763 ratings — published 2018
Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as housing)
avg rating 4.43 — 498 ratings — published
The Affordable City: Strategies for Putting Housing Within Reach (and Keeping it There)
by (shelved 14 times as housing)
avg rating 4.22 — 218 ratings — published
Housing Policy in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as housing)
avg rating 4.11 — 129 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 — 344 ratings — published 1983
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as housing)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,078 ratings — published 1985
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as housing)
avg rating 4.63 — 3,899 ratings — published 2025
Neighborhood Defenders: Participatory Politics and America's Housing Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as housing)
avg rating 4.07 — 96 ratings — published
Urban Warfare: Housing under the Empire of Finance (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as housing)
avg rating 4.24 — 150 ratings — published 2019
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
Blueprint for Disaster: The Unraveling of Chicago Public Housing (Historical Studies of Urban America)
by (shelved 11 times as housing)
avg rating 4.04 — 122 ratings — published 2009
Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as housing)
avg rating 4.30 — 313 ratings — published 2017
Abundance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as housing)
avg rating 3.94 — 38,913 ratings — published 2025
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as housing)
avg rating 4.27 — 61,263 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 3.91 — 6,389 ratings — published 2011
Home Truths: Fixing Canada's Housing Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as housing)
avg rating 4.30 — 83 ratings — published
Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as housing)
avg rating 4.23 — 266 ratings — published 2024
The Voucher Promise: "Section 8" and the Fate of an American Neighborhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as housing)
avg rating 4.28 — 176 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 4.01 — 133 ratings — published 2014
The Affordable Housing Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.24 — 17 ratings — published 2012
Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.38 — 449 ratings — published
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,901 ratings — published
Homewreckers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.24 — 558 ratings — published 2019
The Rent Is Too Damn High (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.03 — 790 ratings — published 2012
All That Is Solid: The Great Housing Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 3.54 — 143 ratings — published 2014
The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,111 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 — 8,670 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 — 16,084 ratings — published 1991
A History of Housing in New York City (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.02 — 45 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 — 4,580 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 4.09 — 753 ratings — published 2025
On the Housing Crisis: Land, Development, Democracy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as housing)
avg rating 4.31 — 255 ratings — published
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as housing)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,177 ratings — published 2023
The Tenant Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as housing)
avg rating 4.21 — 400 ratings — published
Tenants: The People on the Frontline of Britain's Housing Emergency (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as housing)
avg rating 4.37 — 672 ratings — published
Brave New Home: Our Future in Smarter, Simpler, Happier Housing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as housing)
avg rating 3.70 — 304 ratings — published 2020
Why Can't You Afford a Home? (The Future of Capitalism)
by (shelved 6 times as housing)
avg rating 4.17 — 151 ratings — published
“any house they’d chosen would have become the very thing they sought”
― Magic Hour
― Magic Hour
“We went from banning certain kinds of people from our communities to banning the kinds of housing in which those people lived - namely, apartment buildings designed for multiple families - achieving the same ends.”
― Poverty, by America
― Poverty, by America
