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  • San Fransicko

    Why Progressives Ruin Cities

    National bestselling author of APOCALYPSE NEVER skewers progressives for the mishandling of America’s faltering cities.Progressives claimed they knew how to solve homelessness, inequality, and crime. But in cities they control, progressives made those problems worse.Michael Shellenberger has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for thirty years. During that time, he advocated for the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • Ours to Lose

    When Squatters Became Homeowners in New York City

    “The fascinating and little-known tale of the Lower East Side squatters of the Eighties . . . a radical, European-inspired housing movement” (The Village Voice).Though New York’s Lower East Side today is home to high-end condos and hip restaurants, it was for decades an infamous site of blight, open-air drug dealing, and class conflict—an emblematic example of the tattered state of 1970s and ’80s ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Yes to the City

    Millennials and the Fight for Affordable Housing

    by Max Holleran ...
    A fascinating account of the growing "Yes in My Backyard" urban movementThe exorbitant costs of urban housing and the widening gap in income inequality are fueling a combative new movement in cities around the world. A growing number of influential activists aren’t waiting for new public housing to be built. Instead, they’re calling for more construction and denser cities in order to increase ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Homelessness in America

    A Reference Handbook

    by Michele Wakin ...
    Series series Contemporary World Issues
    This title provides a one-stop resource for understanding the crisis of homelessness in the United States. It covers risk factors for homelessness, societal attitudes about the homeless, and public and private resources designed to prevent homelessness and help those in need.There are a number of questions to be answered when addressing the subject of homelessness in the United States. What are ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

    New York Times Bestseller • Notable Book of the Year • Editors' Choice SelectionOne of Bill Gates’ “Amazing Books” of the YearOne of Publishers Weekly’s 10 Best Books of the YearLonglisted for the National Book Award for NonfictionAn NPR Best Book of the YearWinner of the Hillman Prize for NonfictionGold Winner • California Book Award (Nonfiction)Finalist • Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Servants of the Damned

    Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump, and the Corruption of Justice

    by David Enrich ...
    National Bestseller"A powerful and important picture of how mega law firms distort justice."—David Cay Johnston, Washington PostThe NYT's Business Investigations Editor reveals the dark side of American law: Delivering a "devastating" (Carol Leonnig) exposé of the astonishing yet shadowy power wielded by the world’s largest law firms, David Enrich traces how one firm shielded opioid makers, gun ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • 1000 Best Homebuying Secrets

    by Michael Flynn ...
    Series Book 0 - 1000 Best
    Navigate the homebuying process with ease!Let real estate pro Michael Flynn show you the ropes-Learn the lingo. CMA, MLS, FSBO, PMI--find out what it all means!-Know what to look for when choosing a neighborhood-Find out what features will attract buyers when it's time to resell-Your credit score--things you should know and what to do about it-Find out what loan arrangement is right for you-House ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Neighborhood Defenders

    Participatory Politics and America's Housing Crisis

    Since the collapse of the housing market in 2008, demand for housing has consistently outpaced supply in many US communities. The failure to construct sufficient housing - especially affordable housing - in desirable communities and neighborhoods comes with significant social, economic, and environmental costs. This book examines how local participatory land use institutions amplify the power of ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Democratizing Cleveland

    The Rise and Fall of Community Organizing in Cleveland, Ohio

    Democratizing Cleveland: The Rise and Fall of Community Organizing in Cleveland, Ohio, 1975-1985 is the result of almost fifteen years of research on a topic that has been missing from local works on Cleveland history: the community organizing movement that put neighborhood concerns and neighborhood voices front and center in the setting of public policies in the late 1970s and early 1980s. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Climbing Mount Laurel

    The Struggle for Affordable Housing and Social Mobility in an American Suburb

    A close look at the aftereffects of the Mount Laurel affordable housing decisionUnder the New Jersey State Constitution as interpreted by the State Supreme Court in 1975 and 1983, municipalities are required to use their zoning authority to create realistic opportunities for a fair share of affordable housing for low- and moderate-income households. Mount Laurel was the town at the center of the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Florida Construction Defect Litigation 2019

    by Gary Brown ...
    Construction defect claims cover a wide spectrum of issues and can involve multiple parties responsible for both construction and design errors.Florida Construction Defect Litigation covers a variety of topics and issues, including the legal frame-work within which construction defect claims are addressed, typical claims and defenses, contractual considerations, standards of care for contractors ... Read more

    $151.99 USD

  • The Battle of Lincoln Park

    Urban Renewal and Gentrification in Chicago

    In the years after World War II, a movement began to bring the middle class back from the Chicago suburbs to the Lincoln Park neighborhood on the city's North Side. In place of the old, poorly maintained apartments and dense streetscapes of taverns and butchers, “rehabbers” imagined a new kind of neighborhood—a renovated, modern community that held on to the convenience, diversity, and character ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • People Wasn't Made to Burn

    A True Story of Housing, Race, and Murder in Chicago

    by Joe Allen ...
    This story of a grief-stricken man’s murder of a landlord is “nothing less than a reinvention of the true crime genre” (The Nation).In 1947, James Hickman shot and killed the landlord he believed was responsible for a tragic fire that took the lives of four of his children on Chicago’s West Side. But a vibrant defense campaign, exposing the working poverty and racism that led to his crime, helped ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On Common Ground

    International Perspectives on the Community Land Trust

    Edited by John Emmeus Davis ...
    Fifty years ago, African-American activists in Albany, Georgia extended their political fight for civil rights into the economic realm by creating New Communities Inc. They had come to believe that owning land was essential to securing greater independence for their people. But landownership was out-of-reach for most African-Americans in the Deep South of the 1960s and too easily lost if they did ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Voucher Promise

    "Section 8" and the Fate of an American Neighborhood

    by Eva Rosen ...
    "A must-read for anyone interested in solutions to America’s housing crisis."—Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American CityAn in-depth look at America’s largest rental assistance program and how it shapes the lives of residents in one low-income Baltimore neighborhoodHousing vouchers are a cornerstone of US federal housing policy, offering aid ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • What a City Is For

    Remaking the Politics of Displacement

    by Matt Hern ...
    An investigation into gentrification and displacement, focusing on the case of Portland, Oregon's systematic dispersal of black residents from its Albina neighborhood.Portland, Oregon, is one of the most beautiful, livable cities in the United States. It has walkable neighborhoods, bike lanes, low-density housing, public transportation, and significant green space—not to mention craft-beer bars ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • From Urbanization to Cities

    The Politics of Democratic Municipalism

    In this far-reaching work, social ecologist and historian Murray Bookchin takes the reader on a voyage through the evolution of the city. Cities are not just monumental social and political facts, they are tremendous ecological facts as well. Far from seeing them as an inherent adversary of the natural world, though, Bookchin uncovers a hidden history of cities as “eco-communities” that fostered ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • El Infonavit. Retrovisión y Perspectivas

    ¿De institución social del estado mexicano a institución financiera de mercado?

    El Infonavit es una institución del Estado mexicano enfocada en proveer bienestar social a través de la dotación de vivienda para el trabajador mexicano. Sin embargo, desde los años ochenta, esta institución ha experimentado reformas y transformaciones importantes ante el cambio del modelo económico, de tal manera que su actividad ahora prioriza la participación en el mercado financiero, relegando ... Read more

    $7.99 USD $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How the Suburbs Were Segregated

    Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890–1960

    by Paige Glotzer ...
    Series series Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism
    The story of the rise of the segregated suburb often begins during the New Deal and the Second World War, when sweeping federal policies hollowed out cities, pushed rapid suburbanization, and created a white homeowner class intent on defending racial barriers. Paige Glotzer offers a new understanding of the deeper roots of suburban segregation. The mid-twentieth-century policies that favored ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Rights of Passage

    Sidewalks and the Regulation of Public Flow

    Series series Social Justice
    Rights of Passage: Sidewalks and the Regulation of Public Flow documents a powerful and under-researched form of urban governance that focuses on pedestrian flow. This logic, which Nicholas Blomley terms 'pedestrianism', values public space not in terms of its aesthetic merits, or its success in promoting public citizenship and democracy. Rather, the function of the sidewalk is understood to be ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • American Bonds

    How Credit Markets Shaped a Nation

    Series Book 160 - Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives
    How the American government has long used financial credit programs to create economic opportunitiesFederal housing finance policy and mortgage-backed securities have gained widespread attention in recent years because of the 2008 financial crisis, but issues of government credit have been part of American life since the nation’s founding. From the 1780s, when a watershed national land credit ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Building, Occupying and Selling Tiny Homes Legally

    Whether they are built on wheels or on a foundation, tiny homes are among the most highly regulated buildings. This convenient, easy-to-use resource provides a comprehensive analysis of the six types of tiny homes and links you directly to the laws you'll need to know whether you're building, occupying, selling, or buying a tiny home including looking for a place to park it. Building, Occupying ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Condominium Concept

    A Practical Guide for Officers, Owners, Realtors, Attorneys, and Directors of Florida Condominiums

    A practical and popular guide to operating a successful condominium association in Florida. Working tool with forms and references to the latest Florida Statutes. For officers, owners, realtors, attorneys and directors. ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Commercial Real Estate: 10 Realtor Questions & Answers, 10 Step Checklist to Success

    by Jennifer Webb ...
    Commercial Real Estate Answers For Steps To Success10 Questions and Answers1. What Does Commercial Real Estate Mean? 2. How Does Commercial Real Estate Work? 3. How Do Commercial Real Estate Loans & Financing Work? 4.What Does Commercial Real Estate "NNN" Mean? 5.What Is A Commercial Real Estate License? 6.How Do Commercial Real Estate Investments Work? 7. What Are Commercial Real Estate Listings? ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus