(Mobile ebook) In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis
• Peter Marcuse, David Madden •
| #173704 in Books | imusti | 2016-08-16 | 2016-08-16 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.30 x.70 x5.50l,.81 | File Name: 1784783544 | 240 pages | Verso
||10 of 11 people found the following review helpful.| Good book on the history of urban housing.|By B. Wolinsky|Housing has gone from a place where people live, to a commodity traded by absentee investors, often with the collusion of local governments. Even without reading this book I can understand the point of the authors, because I’ve seen firsthand how a house can change owner four times in a month. One of their argum||“Excellent.”| —Charles Mudede, The Stranger ||“An accessible, jargon-free account of how housing works under capitalism and a clarion call for how we can—and must—change it.”| —Socialist
In every major city in the world there is a housing crisis. How did this happen and what can we do about it?
Everyone needs and deserves housing. But today our homes are being transformed into commodities, making the inequalities of the city ever more acute. Profit has become more important than social need. The poor are forced to pay more for worse housing. Communities are faced with the violence of displacement and gentrification. And the benefits of dec...
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