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$2.00 a day : living on almost nothing in America
by Kathryn J Edin
A revelatory assessment of poverty in America examines the survival methods employed by households with virtually no income to illuminate disturbing trends in low-wage labor and income inequality.
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Evicted : poverty and profit in the American city
by Matthew Desmond
A Harvard sociologist examines the challenge of eviction as a formidable cause of poverty in America, revealing how millions of people are wrongly forced from their homes and reduced to cycles of extreme disadvantage that are reinforced by dysfunctional legal systems
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True stories of teen homelessness
by Monika Davies
Discusses teen homelessness around the world, detailing how teenagers become homeless and exploring how to prevent teen homelessness
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High-risers : Cabrini-Green and the fate of American public housing
by Ben Austen
Blends personal narrative, city politics and national history in the story of Chicago's iconic public-housing project to trace its evolution from a 1940s slum to a towering community only blocks from the Gold Coast, where crime and government failures impacted the lives of countless families before the razing and dispersals of 2011. 40,000 first printing.
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The mortgage wars : inside Fannie Mae, big-money politics, and the collapse of the American dream
by Timothy Howard
"The former Fannie Mae CFO's inside look at the war between the financial giants and government regulators A provocative true-life thriller about the all-out fight for dominance of the mortgage industry--and how it nearly destroyed the global financial systemMany books have been written about the 2008 financial crisis, but they miss the biggest story of the meltdown: the battle between giant financial companies to dominate the $11 trillion mortgage market that almost destroyed the global financial system. For more than twenty years, until 2004, Timothy Howard was a senior executive at the best known of those companies, Fannie Mae, and he was in the middle of that fight.In The Franchise, Howard explains how seemingly unrelated developments in banking regulation, housing policy, Wall Street financial innovation, and political lobbying all combined to wreak havoc on the American housing market and the world economy.Timothy Howard was Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer of Fannie Mae until 2004. Priorto this, he was senior financial economist at Wells Fargo Bank in San Francisco"
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The one day house
by Julia Durango
A little boy promises his beloved friend, an elderly lady, that one day he will fix up her old house--and his words inspire the other people in the neighborhood to pitch in and get it done
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Say hello, Lily
by Deborah Lakritz
Lily wants to go with her mother to visit the people who live at Shalom Home, an assisted living facility, but when they arrive she suddenly feels very shy
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The ABC book of American homes
by Michael Shoulders
An alphabetical celebration of American architecture, wherein such housing styles as Cajun cottage, pueblo, and Victorians are described
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