Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America
by Randy Shaw
Recommended by Tyler Cowen
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Generation Priced Out reads like a city-by-city investigative dispatch: vivid tenant stories and activist chronicles alternating with policy snapshots and local political battles. Its most useful part is the concrete reporting — names, campaigns, and municipal fights that show how zoning, development, and homeowner resistance shape prices. The book’s limit is a sometimes polemical voice and uneven depth: some cities get rich detail while other chapters summarize quickly, so readers wanting systematic data or step-by-step fixes will be frustrated.
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Generation Priced Out is a call to action on one of the most talkedabout issues of our time: how skyrocketing rents and home values are pricing the working and middle classes out of urban America. Randy Shaw tells the powerful stories of tenants, politicians, homeowner groups, developers, and activists in over a dozen cities impacted by the nation...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Finance, and Politics.
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Tyler Cowen
“A YIMBY book, with good historical material on San Francisco, Los Angeles, and other locales involved in the struggle to build more.”
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