Description
Spacious, affordable homes once symbolized American prosperity. Today, punishing rents and the increasingly prohibitive cost of ownership have made housing the foremost symbol of inequality and an economy gone wrong. Nowhere is this more visible than in the San Francisco Bay Area, where fleets of private buses carry software engineers past the tarp-and-plywood shanties of homeless people. California’s reputation as a glimpse of the nation’s future has become a cautionary tale. Through propulsive storytelling and ground-level reporting, New York Times journalist Conor Dougherty chronicles America’s housing crisis from its West Coast epicenter, examining the decades of history and economic forces that brought the country to this point and taking readers inside the activist movements that have emerged alongside rising housing costs.
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Author: Dougherty Conor
Language: English
Publication date: February 1, 2021
Manufacturer: Folio, spol.s r.o.
Genres: English literature, Books, Foreign language books
Type: Paperback book
Pages: 304
ISBN/EAN: 9780525560234