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.

"Written in a lucid and engaging style, the book draws on extensive first-hand experience of tenant organising, activism, and policy-writing as well as interviews with a real who’s-who of housing activists in several high-cost US cities not only to make the case for urban policy to take housing affordability seriously, but also to outline concrete steps to get there."

• Preface to the Paperback EditionAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 • 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 Diversity     NotesIndex

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.

"Written in a lucid and engaging style, the book draws on extensive first-hand experience of tenant organising, activism, and policy-writing as well as interviews with a real who’s-who of housing activists in several high-cost US cities not only to make the case for urban policy to take housing affordability seriously, but also to outline concrete steps to get there."

• Preface to the Paperback EditionAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 • 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 Diversity     NotesIndex

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.

"Written in a lucid and engaging style, the book draws on extensive first-hand experience of tenant organising, activism, and policy-writing as well as interviews with a real who’s-who of housing activists in several high-cost US cities not only to make the case for urban policy to take housing affordability seriously, but also to outline concrete steps to get there."

• Preface to the Paperback EditionAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 • 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 Diversity     NotesIndex