Randy Shaw is Director of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, San Francisco’s leading provider of housing for homeless single adults. His previous books include The Activist’s Handbook: Winning Social Change in the 21st Century; Beyond the Fields: Cesar Chavez, the UFW, and the Struggle for Justice in the 21st Century; and The Tenderloin: Sex, Crime, and Resistance in the Heart of San Francisco.

Recommended Reading, “101 Books About Where and How We Live”: “This city-by-city examination of the nation’s spreading affordability problem shows how long commutes, housing instability, and decentralized communities have become national issues.”

• Acknowledgments Introduction1 • Battling Displacement in the New San Francisco2 • A Hollywood Ending for Los Angeles Housing Woes?3 • Keeping Austin Diverse4 • Can Building Housing Lower Rents? Seattle and Denver Say Yes5 • Will San Francisco Open Its Golden Gates to the Working and Middle Class?6 • Millennials Battle Boomers Over Housing7 • Get Off My Lawn! How Neighborhood Groups Stop Housing8 • New York City, Oakland, and San Francisco’s Mission District: The Fight to Preserve Racial DiversityConclusion: Ten Steps to Preserve Cities’ Economic and Racial DiversityNotes

Randy Shaw is Director of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, San Francisco’s leading provider of housing for homeless single adults. His previous books include The Activist’s Handbook: Winning Social Change in the 21st Century; Beyond the Fields: Cesar Chavez, the UFW, and the Struggle for Justice in the 21st Century; and The Tenderloin: Sex, Crime, and Resistance in the Heart of San Francisco.

Recommended Reading, “101 Books About Where and How We Live”: “This city-by-city examination of the nation’s spreading affordability problem shows how long commutes, housing instability, and decentralized communities have become national issues.”

• Acknowledgments Introduction1 • Battling Displacement in the New San Francisco2 • A Hollywood Ending for Los Angeles Housing Woes?3 • Keeping Austin Diverse4 • Can Building Housing Lower Rents? Seattle and Denver Say Yes5 • Will San Francisco Open Its Golden Gates to the Working and Middle Class?6 • Millennials Battle Boomers Over Housing7 • Get Off My Lawn! How Neighborhood Groups Stop Housing8 • New York City, Oakland, and San Francisco’s Mission District: The Fight to Preserve Racial DiversityConclusion: Ten Steps to Preserve Cities’ Economic and Racial DiversityNotes