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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as housing)
avg rating 4.47 — 116,951 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 4.43 — 47,729 ratings — published 2017
Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as housing)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,789 ratings — published 2020
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as housing)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,698 ratings — published 2019
In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as housing)
avg rating 4.03 — 794 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 — 3,931 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 — 1,316 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 — 1,503 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 — 2,220 ratings — published 2018
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as housing)
avg rating 4.29 — 20,539 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 — 610 ratings — published 2009
Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as housing)
avg rating 4.41 — 572 ratings — published
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
by (shelved 16 times as housing)
avg rating 4.60 — 8,470 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 — 1,259 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 — 224 ratings — published
Municipal Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Council Housing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as housing)
avg rating 3.92 — 778 ratings — published 2018
Fixer-Upper: How to Repair America's Broken Housing Systems (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as housing)
avg rating 3.93 — 428 ratings — published 2022
Housing Policy in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as housing)
avg rating 4.11 — 133 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 — 348 ratings — published 1983
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as housing)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,098 ratings — published 1985
Urban Warfare: Housing under the Empire of Finance (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as housing)
avg rating 4.23 — 153 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 3.89 — 51,851 ratings — published 2025
Neighborhood Defenders: Participatory Politics and America's Housing Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as housing)
avg rating 4.06 — 99 ratings — published
Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as housing)
avg rating 4.29 — 324 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 4.17 — 35 ratings — published 1997
Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as housing)
avg rating 4.23 — 292 ratings — published 2024
The Tenant Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as housing)
avg rating 4.22 — 433 ratings — published
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as housing)
avg rating 4.27 — 65,672 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 — 6,471 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 — 893 ratings — published 2025
Home Truths: Fixing Canada's Housing Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as housing)
avg rating 4.23 — 98 ratings — published
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as housing)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,034 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 — 8,985 ratings — published 2012
On the Housing Crisis: Land, Development, Democracy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.30 — 280 ratings — published
Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.37 — 505 ratings — published
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,630 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 — 711 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 — 158 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 — 565 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 — 2,132 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 — 16,277 ratings — published 1991
A History of Housing in New York City (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as housing)
avg rating 4.07 — 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 4.04 — 4,642 ratings — published 1993
The Affordable Housing Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as housing)
avg rating 4.24 — 17 ratings — published 2012
“Stop saying "we can't afford" Homes for All, Green New Deal or Medicare for All. If we didn't spend trillions on endless wars and tax breaks for millionaires, we could afford to house our homeless, care for our seniors, and save our planet. We suffer from greed, not scarcity.
(7/29/2020 on Twitter)”
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“The two-story dwellings of this city are, beyond all question, the best, as a system, not only owing to the single family ideas they represent, but because their cost is within the reach of all who desire to own their own homes. They have done more to elevate and to make a better home life than any other known influence. They typify a higher civilization, as well as a truer idea of American home life, and are better, purer, sweeter than any tenement house systems that ever existed. They are what make Philadelphia a city of homes, and command the attention of visitors from every quarter of the globe.”
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