Generation Priced Out

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