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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: Feb 2021
Genre: Social Science - Sociology - Urban
Retail Price: $19.00
Pages: 288
A New York times book review editors' choice a time magazine 100 must-read books of 2020, A stunning, deeply reported investigation into the housing crisis-with a new preface for the post-pandemic world, Spacious and affordable homes used to be the hallmark of American prosperity. Today, however, punishing rents and the increasingly prohibitive cost of ownership have turned housing into the foremost symbol of inequality and an economy gone wrong. Nowhere is this more visible than in the San Francisco Bay Area, where fleets of private buses ferry software engineers past the tarp-and-plywood shanties of the homeless. The adage that California is a glimpse of the nation's future has become a cautionary tale. 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 taking readers inside the activist movements that have risen in tandem with housing costs.