Generation Priced Out: Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America, with a New Preface
Author:   Randy Shaw
Publisher:   University of California Press
ISBN:  

9780520356214


Pages:   328
Publication Date:   07 April 2020
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Randy Shaw
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.363kg
ISBN:  

9780520356214


ISBN 10:   0520356217
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   07 April 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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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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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 *


"""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 *"


Author Information

Randy Shaw is Director of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, San Francisco’s leading provider of housing for homeless single adults. His previous books include The Activist’s Handbook: Winning Social Change in the 21st Century; Beyond the Fields: Cesar Chavez, the UFW, and the Struggle for Justice in the 21st Century; and The Tenderloin: Sex, Crime, and Resistance in the Heart of San Francisco.  

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