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"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." * Intergenerational Justice Review *

Table of Contents
Preface to the Paperback Edition
Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 • Battling Displacement in the New San Francisco
2 • A Hollywood Ending for Los Angeles Housing Woes?
3 • Keeping Austin Diverse
4 • Can Building Housing Lower Rents? Seattle and Denver Say Yes
5 • Will San Francisco Open Its Golden Gates to the Working and Middle Class?
6 • Millennials Battle Boomers Over Housing
7 • Get Off My Lawn! How Neighborhood Groups Stop Housing
8 • New York City, Oakland, and San Francisco’s Mission District: The Fight to Preserve Racial Diversity
Conclusion: Ten Steps to Preserve Cities’ Economic and Racial Diversity

Notes
Index

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 07/04/2020
      ISBN13: 9780520356214, 978-0520356214
      ISBN10: 0520356217
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      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      "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." * Intergenerational Justice Review *

      Table of Contents
      Preface to the Paperback Edition
      Acknowledgments

      Introduction

      1 • Battling Displacement in the New San Francisco
      2 • A Hollywood Ending for Los Angeles Housing Woes?
      3 • Keeping Austin Diverse
      4 • Can Building Housing Lower Rents? Seattle and Denver Say Yes
      5 • Will San Francisco Open Its Golden Gates to the Working and Middle Class?
      6 • Millennials Battle Boomers Over Housing
      7 • Get Off My Lawn! How Neighborhood Groups Stop Housing
      8 • New York City, Oakland, and San Francisco’s Mission District: The Fight to Preserve Racial Diversity
      Conclusion: Ten Steps to Preserve Cities’ Economic and Racial Diversity

      Notes
      Index

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