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• Evicted

  Poverty and Profit in the American City

  Desmond, Matthew,

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  Set in the poorest areas of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the book follows eight families struggling to pay rent to their landlords during the financial crisis of 2007–2008.

• Golden Gates

  Fighting for Housing in America

  Dougherty, Conor,

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  With propulsive storytelling and ground-level reporting, New York Times journalist Conor Dougherty chronicles America’s housing crisis from its West Coast epicenter, peeling back the decades of history and economic forces that brought us here and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• $2.00 a Day

  Living on Almost Nothing in America

  Edin, Kathryn, 1962-

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  After two decades of brilliant research on American poverty, Kathryn Edin noticed something she hadn’t seen before—households surviving on virtually no cash income. Edin teamed with Luke Shaefer, an expert on calculating incomes of the poor, to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City

  Ehrenhalt, Alan, 1947-

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  The Great Inversion is an eye-opening and thoroughly engaging look at our urban society and its future.

• Invisible Child

  Poverty, Survival, and Hope in An American City

  Elliott, Andrea,

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  Pulitzer Prize winner Andrea Elliott follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani, a girl whose imagination is as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn shelter. In this sweeping narrative, Elliott weaves the story of Dasani’s childhood…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments

  Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval

  Hartman, Saidiya V.,

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  Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century.

• The Sum of Us

  What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

  McGhee, Heather C.,

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  McGhee embarks on a deeply personal journey across the country from Maine to Mississippi to California, tallying what we lose when we buy into the zero-sum paradigm—the idea that progress for some of us must come at the expense of others.

• How to Kill a City

  Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood

  Moskowitz, Peter, 1988-

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  P. E. Moskowitz's How to Kill a City takes readers from the kitchen tables of hurting families who can no longer afford their homes to the corporate boardrooms and political backrooms where destructive housing policies are devised. Along the way,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Color of Law

  a Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

  Rothstein, Richard,

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  Rothstein describes how the American government systematically imposed residential segregation: with undisguised racial zoning; public housing that purposefully segregated previously mixed communities; subsidies for builders to create whites-only…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Generation Priced Out

  Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America

  Shaw, Randy, 1956-

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  Shaw exposes how boomer homeowners restrict millennials’ access to housing in big cities, a generational divide that increasingly dominates city politics. Shaw also demonstrates that neighborhood gentrification is not inevitable and presents proven…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hella Town

  Oakland's History of Development and Disruption

  Schwarzer, Mitchell,

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  Hella Town reveals the profound impact of transportation improvements, systemic racism, and regional competition on Oakland's built environment.

• Golden Dreams

  California in An Age of Abundance, 1950-1963

  Starr, Kevin

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  In a powerful blend of telling events, colorful personalities, and insightful analyses, Starr examines such issues as the overnight creation of the postwar California suburb, the rise of Los Angeles as Super City, the reluctant emergence of San…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Race for Profit

  How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership

  Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta,

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  Race for Profit uncovers how exploitative real estate practices continued well after housing discrimination was banned. The same racist structures and individuals remained intact after redlining's end, and close relationships between regulators and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Roots, Race, & Place

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  A History of Racially Exclusionary Housing in the San Francisco Bay Area

• Another America

  Otra América

  Kingsolver, Barbara,

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  Interweaving past political events, from the US-backed dictatorships in South America to the government surveillance carried out in the Reagan years, Kingsolver’s early poetry expands into a broader examination of the racism, discrimination, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Affordable City

  Strategies for Putting Housing Within Reach (and Keeping It There)

  Phillips, Shane (Urban planner),

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  Shane Phillips believes that effectively tackling the housing crisis requires that cities support both tenant protections and housing abundance. He offers readers more than 50 policy recommendations, beginning with a set of principles and general…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Voucher Promise

  "Section 8" and the Fate of An American Neighborhood

  Rosen, Eva, 1983-

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  An in-depth look at America's largest rental assistance program and how it shapes the lives of residents in one low-income Baltimore neighborhood

• Fixer-upper

  How to Repair America's Broken Housing Systems

  Schuetz, Jenny, 1975-

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  Fixer-Upper is the first book assessing how the broad set of local, state, and national housing policies affect people and communities. It does more than describe how yesterday’s policies led to today’s problems. It proposes practical policy changes…Read moreRead more of this annotation