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Sheila Picks

Fixer-Upper: How to Repair America’s Broken Housing SystemsFixer-Upper is the first book assessing how the broad set of local, state, and national housing policies affect people and communities. It does more than describe how yesterday’s policies led to t...

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City|eBookNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • One of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic “has set a new standard for reporting on poverty”...

Golden Gates by Conor Dougherty: 9780525560234 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: BooksA Time 100 Must-Read Book of 2020 • A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • California Book Award Silver Medal in Nonfiction • Finalist for The New York Public Library Helen Bernstein...

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America|PaperbackNew York Times Bestseller • Notable Book of the Year • Editors' Choice Selection One of Bill Gates’ “Amazing Books” of the Year One of Publishers Weekly’s 10 Best Books of the Year Longlisted for the National Book Award for...

Paved Paradise by Henry Grabar: 9781984881137 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books“Consistently entertaining and often downright funny.” —The New Yorker “Wry and revelatory.” —The New York Times "A romp, packed with tales of anger, violence,...

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2024 Housing Quick Sheets

A guide to help you start to understand affordable housing and other things.

Joe Picks

Mandie Picks

‎The Ezra Klein Show: Why Housing Is So Expensive — Particularly in Blue States on Apple Podcasts‎Show The Ezra Klein Show, Ep Why Housing Is So Expensive — Particularly in Blue States - Jul 19, 2022

Episode 3 titled “The House We Live In” is focused on historical housing discrimination/housing inequity – if you didn’t want/have time to watch the whole thing, Episode 3 might be the best one to start with.

Piyawee Picks

Segregated by Design (video, ~18 mins)

The Color of Law author Richard Rothstein delivers a rapid fire primer on exclusionary zoning and racist federal policies.

Zoning Matters: How Land Use Policies Shape Our Lives (video, ~3 mins)

Learn how zoning affects communities from the video from the Urban Institute.