Golden gates : fighting for housing in America / Conor Dougherty.

"Spacious and affordable homes used to be the hallmark of American prosperity. Today, however, punishing rents and the increasingly prohibitive cost of ownership have turned housing into the foremost symbol of inequality and an economy gone wrong. Nowhere is this more visible than in the San Franc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dougherty, Conor (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Penguin Press, 2020.
Subjects:
Housing > California > San Francisco.
Working class > Housing > California > San Francisco.
Zoning > California > San Francisco.
City planning > California > San Francisco.
City planning.
Housing.
Working class > Housing.
Zoning.
California > San Francisco.
Physical Description:xvi, 269 pages ; 25 cm
Variant Title:
Fighting for housing in America
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Members of the public
  • Organizing the unorganizable
  • No hay peor lucha que la que no se hace
  • Plans of oppression
  • Sue the suburbs
  • The second housing package
  • The old ways
  • The value-add investor
  • Sonja for supervisor
  • The rent is too damn high
  • Epilogue: Neighbors for more neighbors.