Fifteen Books on Housing Affordability

There is no doubt that housing affordability will continue to be a challenge for Raleigh this year. So, we thought it might be useful to share a few book recommendations that may be helpful to understand the complex nature of the challenge.

1. Arbitrary Lines by Nolan Gray

2. Homelessness is a Housing Problem by Gregg Colburn and Clayton Page Aldern

3. Building from the Ground Up by Kevin Erdmann

4. Birth of a Building by Ben Stevens

5. Golden Gates by Conor Dougherty

6. Fixer-Upper: How to Repair America’s Broken Housing System by Jenny Shuetz

7. Neighborhood Defenders: Participatory Politics and America’s Housing Crisis by Katherine Einstein, David Glick and Maxwell Palmer

8. Sick City: Race, Inequality and Urban Land by Patrick Condon

9. Segregation By Design: Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities by Jessica Trounstine

10. Zoned in the USA: The Origins and Implications of American Land-Use Regulations by Sonia Hart

11. The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein

12. American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass by Douglas S Massey and Nancy A. Denton

13. The Voucher Promise by Eva Rosen

14. Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State by Samuel Stein

15. One Hundred Years of Zoning and the Future of Cities by Ammon Lehavi