Generation Priced Out

Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America, with a New Preface

AvRandy Shaw

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Generation Priced Out is a call to action on one of the most talked-about issues of our time: how skyrocketing rents and home values are pricing the working and middle classes out of urban America. Randy Shaw tells the powerful stories of tenants, politicians, homeowner groups, developers, and activists in over a dozen cities impacted by the national housing crisis. From San Francisco to New York, Seattle to Denver, and Los Angeles to Austin, Generation Priced Out challenges progressive cities to reverse rising economic and racial inequality. Shaw exposes how boomer homeowners restrict millennials’ access to housing in big cities, a generational divide that increasingly dominates city politics. Shaw also demonstrates that neighborhood gentrification is not inevitable and presents proven measures for cities to preserve and expand their working- and middle-class populations and achieve more equitable and inclusive outcomes. Generation Priced Out is a must-read for anyone concerned about the future of urban America.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-04-07
Mått:152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt:363 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:University of California Press
Antal sidor:328
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520356214

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Sociala grupper och identitet inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

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.

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"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."

Innehållsförteckning

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