Generation priced out: who gets to live in the new urban America

✍ Scribed by Shaw, Randy

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 227 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: United States., USA
• ISBN-13: 9782015240244

✦ Synopsis

Battling displacement in the new San Francisco -- A Hollywood ending for Los Angeles housing woes? -- Keeping Austin diverse -- Can building housing lower rents? Seattle and Denver say yes -- Will San Francisco open its golden gates to the working and middle class? -- Millennials battle boomers over housing -- Get off my lawn! How neighborhood groups stop housing -- 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.;"Generation Priced Out is a call for action on one of the most talked about issues of our time: how skyrocketing rents and home values are pricing out the working and middle-class from urban America. Telling the stories of tenants, developers, politicians, homeowner groups, and housing activists from over a dozen cities impacted by the national housing crisis, Generation Priced Out criticizes cities for advancing policies that increase economic and racial inequality. Shaw also exposes how boomer homeowners restrict millennials' access to housing in big cities, a generational divide that increasingly dominates city politics. Defying conventional wisdom, Shaw demonstrates that rising urban unaffordability and neighborhood gentrification are not inevitable. He offers proven measures for cities to preserve and expand their working- and middle-class populations and achieve more equitable and inclusive outcomes. Generation Priced Out is a must-read for anyone concerned about the future of urban America"--Provided by publisher.

✦ Subjects

USA