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.
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