Broken City: Land Speculation, Inequality, and Urban Crisis:
Analyzes the skyrocketing urban land prices driving our global housing market. How can urban housing, and the land underneath, now account for half of all global wealth? According to Patrick Condon in Broken City, the simple answer is that land has become an asset rather than a utility. If the rich only indulged themselves with gold, jewels, and art, we wouldn’t have a global housing crisis. But once global capital markets realized land was a good speculative investment, runaway housing costs ensued. For example, in Vancouver, land prices increased by six hundred percent between 2008 and 2016. How much wealth have investors extracted from urban land? In this engaging, readable, and insightful treatise, Patrick Condon explains how we have let land, our most durable resource, shift away from the common good and proposes bold strategies for how cities in North America can shift it back.
Link to video : https://youtu.be/YkcuD22_EC8?feature=shared
Environmental Engineering Geologists: Geology of San Francisco, California. This document is full of everything you need to know. There are a great deal of maps and graphics for visually oriented people to appreciate. https://www.aegweb.org/assets/docs/updated_final_geology_of_san.pdf
Seize-the-Narrative-Playbook published by NPH of Northern California. A playbook to advance the YIMBY versions of Housing Justice for supporters who need to understand the claims in order sell their ideas.
The Path to a livable City, published in 2002 by such luminaries as Gabriel Metcalf, edited by Steven Bodzin of the Congress for New Urbanism, Jeffrey Tumlin of Nelson\Nygaard Consulting, and Shannon Dodge and Doug Shoemaker of the Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California. Lydia Tan of Bridge Housing helped the group gain perspective on housing issues. And thanks to the Bay Area Transportation and Land Use Coalition, on whose regional leadership Transportation for a Livable City (TLC) will rely heavily.
Selling Off California
The Untold Story
“a take-down of Wiener and Riccardo, big real estate and YIMBY. It’s a must read, and exposes the whole charade.”
written by Patrick Range McDonald as an advocate for stronger tenant protections, community-based solutions for the housing affordability and homelessness crises, and innovative ways to produce affordable housing.
A History of Catalysts for Local Control: Years 2020-2023
Author Ray Lorber explains how constituents concerned about housing and land use planning organized and took actions to protect their communities. “Democracy is ours! We have tools and strategies to protect our neighborhoods and communities against a developer/investor land-grab that fails to deliver on the promise of affordable housing.”
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
Authors Gregg Colburn and Clayton Page Aldern seek to explain the substantial regional variation in rates of homelessness in cities across the United States… but, find housing market conditions, such as the cost and availability of rental housing are more likely to contributes to high rates of homelessness.
How to Kill a City
A journey to the front lines of the battle for the future of American cities, uncovering the massive, systemic forces behind gentrification — and the lives that are altered in the process.
The term gentrification has become a buzzword to describe the changes in urban neighborhoods across the country, but we don’t realize just how threatening it is. It means more than the arrival of trendy shops, much-maligned hipsters, and expensive lattes. The very future of American cities as vibrant, equitable spaces hangs in the balance.
Nomad Century : How Climate Migration Will Reshape our World
From an award-winning science journalist comes Nomad Century, an urgent investigation of environmental migration—the most underreported, seismic consequence of our climate crisis that will force us to change where—and how—we live.
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