Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
By: Gregg Colburn
4.23
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
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1. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
By: Matthew Desmond
3.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Harvard sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond, a landmark work of scholarship and… read more
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2. The High Cost of Free Parking
By: Donald C. Shoup
3.79
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
American drivers park for free on nearly ninety-nine percent of their car trips, and cities require… read more
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3. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
By: Richard Rothstein
2.89
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading auth… read more
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4. How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood
By: P.E. Moskowitz
4.02
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
The term gentrificationhas become a buzzword to describe the changes in urban neighborhoods across … read more
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5. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
6. Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
By: Henry Grabar
4.20
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly infl… read more
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7. Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs
By: Benjamin Herold
3.89
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
Through the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, hist… read more
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8. When We Walk By: Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America
By: Kevin F. Adler
4.26
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
Think about the last time you saw or interacted with an unhoused person. What did you do? What did … read more
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9. One Nation Under Guns: How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy
By: Dominic Erdozain
4.25
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
This takedown of American gun culture argues that the nation’s founders did not intend the Second A… read more
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10. Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
By: M. Nolan Gray
4.18
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
What if scrapping one flawed policy could bring US cities closer to addressing debilitating housing… read more
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11. Fixer-Upper: How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems
By: Jenny Schuetz
3.95
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Much ink has been spilled in recent years talking about political divides and inequality in the Uni… read more
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12. The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America
By: Kathryn J. Edin
4.17
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and surprising new understanding of extreme poverty in America from the authors of the a… read more
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13. Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction
By: Maia Szalavitz
4.54
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From “one of the bravest, smartest writers about addiction anywhere” (Johann Hari, New York Times b… read more
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14. City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways
By: Megan Kimble
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening investigation into how our ever-expanding urban highways accelerated inequality and … read more
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15. Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
By: Gregg Colburn
4.23
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Using rich and detailed data, this groundbreaking book explains why homelessness has become a crisi… read more
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16. Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law
By: Richard Rothstein
3.94
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The Color of Law brilliantly recounted how government at all levels created segregation. Just Actio… read more
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17. Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America
By: Conor Dougherty
4.07
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A stunning, deeply reported investigation into the housing crisis Spacious and affordable homes… read more
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18. The Voucher Promise: "Section 8" and the Fate of an American Neighborhood
By: Eva Rosen
4.32
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An in-depth look at America's largest rental assistance program and how it shapes the lives of resi… read more
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19. Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding, and Ending U.S. Poverty
By: Joanne Samuel Goldblum
4.17
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
Water. Food. Housing. The most basic and crucial needs for survival, yet 40 percent of people in th… read more
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20. Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis
By: Charles L. Marohn Jr.
4.49
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Explore the past, present, and future of housing in America, as well as solutions to its most press… read more
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21. Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net
By: Jessica Calarco
4.23
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women. Holding It Together chronicles the cau… read more
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