Battling displacement in the new San Francisco -- A Hollywood ending for Los Angeles housing woes? -- Keeping Austin diverse -- Can Seattle and Denver build their way to affordability? -- Will San Francisco open its golden gates to the working and middle class? -- Millennials ba…
"Generation Priced Out is a call for action on one of the most talked about issues of our time: how skyrocketing rents and home values are pricing out the working and middle-class from urban America. Telling the stories of tenants, developers, politicians, homeowner groups, and …
"Leading economist Josh-Ryan Collins argues that to understand the housing crisis, we must examine the 'doom loop' that exists between private home ownership and a lightly regulated commercial banking system. The only way out is to rethink how we structure our tax and financial …
"Throughout the western world, a whole generation is being priced out of the housing market. While wages and incomes continue to stagnate for the majority, house prices and rents remain staggeringly high. For millions of people, particularly millennials, the basic goal of acquir…
"The American Housing Question reframes the question of affordable housing through the concepts of urban citizenship and racism. As the author aptly demonstrates, solving America's housing question means addressing both the effects of racism on housing and revaluing the notion o…
Critical perspectives on housing
by Hartman, Chester W., Bratt, Rachel G., Meyerson, Ann
"In the twenty-first century, housing has become a site of ecological experimentation and environmental remediation. From the vantage point of contemporary architecture, conservation concerns and emergent building science technologies support one another, with new processes and …
"This is a book about housing in postwar Japan and the effects of fairly radical changes in the design of housing on the Japanese people. Public policy toward housing provision and the effects of escalating land prices in Tokyo and a few other very large Japanese cities from the…