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Affordable Housing Month Mes de la Vivienda Asequible
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A pig is moving in!
by Claudia Fries
Henrietta Hen and the other residents of her apartment building are distressed when they learn that their new neighbor is a pig, and assuming all pigs are messy, each animal looks for reasons to dislike the newcomer.
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A place to stay : a shelter story
by Erin Gunti
This simple, touching picture book shows readers a women's shelter through the eyes of a young girl, who, with her mother's help, uses her imagination to overcome her anxiety and adjust. Includes factual endnotes detailing various reasons people experience homelessness and the resources available to help.
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In every house, on every street
by Jess Hitchman
A young narrator shares love and laughter with his family during times spent playing games, singing together and baking yummy treats before pitching in to clean up after playtime and apologizing politely for mistakes.
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What we'll build : plans for our together future
by Oliver Jeffers
A heartwarming story inspired by the birth of the author’s daughter blends Jeffers’ signature artwork with rhythmic verses of promise about the lives that a parent and child will build and share together. By the award-winning creator of Here We Are.
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This is our house
by Hyewon Yum
Follows a family through seasons and generations as the house to which their immigrant grandparents came is transformed into a home
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Still a family : A Story About Homelessness
by Brenda Reeves Sturgis
Despite living in separate shelters, a little girl and her parents find time to be together, demonstrating that even in the most trying of times they are still a loving and committed family
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The blue house
by Phoebe Wahl
Both Leo and his father are angry and sad when their landlord says their old house will be torn down, but soon they find a way to make their new house feel like home
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A duet for home
by Karina Yan Glaser
Two children living in a homeless shelter whose friendship grows over a shared love of classical music, June and Tyree join forces to confront a new housing policy that puts homeless families in danger. 50,000 first printing.
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When we make it : a Nuyorican story
by Elisabet Velasquez
Sarai uses verse to navigate the strain of family traumas and the systemic pressures of toxic masculinity and housing insecurity in a rapidly gentrifying Brooklyn, questioning the society around her, her Boricua identity, and the life she lives
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Pride
by Ibi Aanu Zoboi
Pride and Prejudice gets remixed in this smart, funny, gorgeous retelling of the classic, starring all characters of color, from Ibi Zoboi, National Book Award finalist and author of American Street. Zuri Benitez has pride. Brooklyn pride, family pride,and pride in her Afro-Latino roots. But pride might not be enough to save her rapidly gentrifying neighborhood from becoming unrecognizable.
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Americanah : a novel
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Separated by differing ambitions after falling in love in occupied Nigeria, beautiful Ifemelu experiences triumph and defeat in America, while Obinze endures an undocumented status in London until the pair is reunited in their homeland fifteen years later
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There there
by Tommy Orange
A novel which grapples with the complex history of Native Americans; with an inheritance of profound spirituality; and with a plague of addiction, abuse and suicide follows 12 characters, each of whom has private reasons for traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow.
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New York 2140
by Kim Stanley Robinson
As New York City of the twenty-second century is submerged under rising waters, the residents rapidly adapt until the thriving metropolis becomes a vibrant, though permanently changed, canal region of island skyscrapers.
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A Right to Housing : Foundation for a New Social Agenda
by Rachel G. Bratt
In the 1949 Housing Act, Congress declared "a decent home and a suitable living environment for every American family" our national housing goal. Today, little more than half a century later, upwards of 100 million people in the United States live in housing that is physically inadequate, unsafe, overcrowded, or unaffordable.
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Left Coast City : Progressive Politics in San Francisco, 1975-1991
by Richard Edward DeLeon
Left Coast City provides insight into how San Francisco's progressive coalition developed between 1975 and 1991, what stresses emerged to cause splintering within the coalition, and how the coalition fell apart in the 1991 mayoral campaign.
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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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$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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The great inversion and the future of the American city
by Alan Ehrenhalt
Alan Ehrenhalt, one of our leading urbanologists, takes us to cities across the country to reveal how the roles of America's cities and suburbs are changing places--young adults and affluent retirees moving in, while immigrants and the less affluent aremoving out--and the implications for the future of our society.
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Another America
by Barbara Kingsolver
Before becoming the bestselling author we know today, Barbara Kingsolver was a fresh college graduate who had just moved to Tucson, Arizona with hopes of open space and adventure. What she found was quite different, "another America" that she chronicled through her poetry, in which she came to share her home with refugees and committed to paper their tragic stories of life at and beyond the borderland.
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Rachel and her children : homeless families in America
by Jonathan Kozol
Argues that homelessness is caused by the lack of low-cost housing, describes the experiences of the homeless, and explains why the current welfare system is inadequate and misdirected. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
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Tell Them Who I Am : The Lives of Homeless Women
by Elliot Liebow
He observes them, creating portraits that are intimate and objective, while breaking down stereotypes and dehumanizing labels often used to describe the homeless. Liebow writes about their daily habits, constant struggles, their humor, compassion and strength.
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Better must come : exiting homelessness in two global cities
by Matthew D. Marr
In Better Must Come, Matthew D. Marr reveals how social contexts at various levels combine and interact to shape the experiences of transitional housing program users in two of the most prosperous cities of the global economy, Los Angeles and Tokyo.
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The sum of us : how racism hurts everyone
by Heather C. McGhee
Now adapted for a new generation of young readers, leaders, thinkers and activists, this New York Times best-seller, which doubles as a call to action, examines how damaging racism is to all people and offers hope and real solutions so we can all prosper.
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The Affordable City : Strategies for Putting Housing Within Reach (and Keeping It There)
by Shane Phillips
From Los Angeles to Boston and Chicago to Miami, US cities are struggling to address the twin crises of high housing costs and household instability. Debates over the appropriate course of action have been defined by two poles: building more housing or enacting stronger tenant protections. These options are often treated as mutually exclusive, with support for one implying opposition to the other.
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American Babylon : Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland
by Robert Self
As the birthplace of the Black Panthers and a nationwide tax revolt, California embodied a crucial motif of the postwar United States: the rise of suburbs and the decline of cities, a process in which black and white histories inextricably joined. American Babylon tells this story through Oakland and its nearby suburbs, tracing both the history of civil rights and black power politics as well as the history of suburbanization and home-owner politics.
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Generation priced out : who gets to live in the new urban America
by Randy Shaw
Offers a call to action on one of the most discussed topics of our time: how skyrocketing rents and home values are pricing the working and middle classes out of urban America, looking at such cities as New York, San Francisco, Austin and others.
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Hella town : Oakland's history of development and disruption
by Mitchell Schwarzer
Oakland is a well-kept secret, a port city of dramatic topography and physical beauty, varied social groups and one-off neighborhoods. In his incisive history, Mitchell Schwarzer examines the development of Oakland's built environment from the onset of the twentieth century to the present, especially in light of its status as a second city playing underdog to glamorous San Francisco across the bay.
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Invisible nation : homeless families in America
by Richard Schweid
Every year, more than 2.5 million children are left homeless in the United States and the number of such families continues to rise annually. In every state, children are living in small quarters packed in with relatives-- in cars, in motel rooms, or inemergency shelters.
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Golden dreams : California in an age of abundance, 1950-1963
by Kevin Starr
A narrative tour de force that combines wide-ranging scholarship with captivating prose, Kevin Starr's acclaimed multi-volume Americans and the California Dream is an unparalleled work of cultural history. In this volume, Starr covers the crucial postwar period--1950 to 1963--when the California we know today first burst into prominence.
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Capital City : Gentrification and the Real Estate State
by Samuel Stein
Our cities are changing. Global real estate is now a $217 trillion dollar industry, 36 times the value of all the gold ever mined. It makes up 60 percent of the world's assets, and the most powerful person in the world - the president of the United States - made his name as a landlord and real estate developer.
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Fixer-Upper : How to Repair America's Broken Housing Systems
by Jenny Schuetz
Much ink has been spilled in recent years talking about political divides and inequality in the United States. But these discussions too often miss one of the most important factors in the divisions among Americans: the fundamentally unequal nature of the nation’s housing systems. Financially well-off Americans can afford comfortable, stable homes in desirable communities. Millions of other Americans cannot.
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Race for Profit : How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
By the late 1960s and early 1970s, reeling from a wave of urban uprisings, politicians finally worked to end the practice of redlining. Reasoning that the turbulence could be calmed by turning Black city-dwellers into homeowners, they passed the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, and set about establishing policies to induce mortgage lenders and the real estate industry to treat Black homebuyers equally. The disaster that ensued revealed that racist exclusion had not been eradicated, but rather transmuted into a new phenomenon of predatory inclusion.
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