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Record Nr.

UNINA9911008904103321

Autore

Shaw Randy

Titolo

Generation Priced Out : Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America, with a New Preface / / Randy Shaw

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

9780520976184

0520976185

Edizione

[First paperback edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (328 pages)

Disciplina

307.760973

Soggetti

Housing - United States

Middle class - United States - Economic conditions

Generation Y - United States - Economic conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- 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

Sommario/riassunto

Generation Priced Out is a call to action on one of the most talked-about 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 national housing crisis. From San Francisco to New York, Seattle to Denver, and Los Angeles to Austin, Generation Priced Out challenges progressive cities to reverse rising economic and racial inequality. Shaw



exposes how boomer homeowners restrict millennials’ access to housing in big cities, a generational divide that increasingly dominates city politics. Shaw also demonstrates that neighborhood gentrification is not inevitable and presents 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.