BOOKS HOUSING ISSUES


Atuahene, Bernadette, Plundered: How Racist Policies Undermine Black Homeownership in America, Little, Brown and Company, 2025

Burling, James S., Sen. Mike Lee, Nowhere to Live: The Hidden Story of America's Housing Crisis, Skyhorse, 2024

 

Caplan, Bryan, Ady Branzei, Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation, Cato Institute, 2024

 

Carley, Rachel, Cabin Fever: Rustic Style comes Home, Simon & Schuster, 1988

 

Colburn, Gregg. Clayton Page Aldern, Homelessness is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns, University of California Press, 2022

 

Davis, Mike, Robert Morrow, City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles, Verso; Reprint edition, 2018

 

Demsas, Jerusalem, On the Housing Crisis: Land, Development, Democracy (Atlantic Editions), Atlantic Editions, 2024

 

Dezember, Ryan, Underwater: How Our American Dream of Homeownership Became a Nightmare, Thomas Dunne Books, 2020

 

Dougherty, Conor, Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America, Penguin Press, 2020

 

Dougherty, Conor, Golden Gates: The Housing Crisis and a Reckoning for the American Dream, Penguin Books, 2021

 

Einstein, Katherine Levine, David M. Glick, Neighborhood Defenders: Participatory Politics and America's Housing Crisis, Cambridge University Press, 2019

 

Florida, Richard, The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class-and What We Can Do About It, Basic Books, 2017

 

Gallagher, Winifred, House Thinking: A Room--Room Look at How We Live – Understanding the Behavioral Science and Psychology of Modern Home Design (P.S.), Harper Perennial, 2007

 

Glantz, Aaron, Homewreckers: How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins, Hedge Fund Magnates, Crooked Banks, and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions Out of Their Homes and Demolished the American Dream, Custom House; Illustrated edition, 2019

 

Harbuck, Daniel, Unlocked: Homebuying Secrets No One Has Ever Told You, Helpful Realty, 2025

 

Hayden, Dolores, Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000, Vintage; Reprint edition, 2004

 

Hirsch, Arnold R., Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960 (Historical Studies of Urban America), The University of Chicago Press; 59183rd edition, 1998

 

Jackson, Kenneth T., Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States, Oxford University Press, 1987

 

Jacobs, Jane, Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life, Vintage; Reprint edition, 1985

 

Johnson, Angela C., Habitat for Humanity: How to Build a House: Revised and Updated, Taunton, 2008

 

Kahn, Lloyd, Home Work: Handbuilt Shelter, Shelter Publications, 2004

 

Kiyosaki, Robert T., The Real Book of Real Estate: Real Experts. Real Stories. Real Life, Plata Publishing, 2016

 

Klein, Zach, Steven Leckart, Cabin Porn: Inspiration for Your Quiet Place Somewhere, Voracious, 2021

 

Maines, Michael, Daniel Kolbert, Pretty Good House, Taunton Press, 2022

 

Marohn, Charles L. Jr., Daniel Herriges, Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis, Wiley, 2024

 

McAlester, Virginia Savage, A Field Guide to American Houses (Revised): The Definitive Guide to Identifying and Understanding America's Domestic Architecture, Knopf; Expanded, Revised edition, 2015

 

McEvoy, Maura, Basha Burwell, The Maine House: Spend any amount of time in Maine―a weekend, a summer, a lifetime―and its impression lasts forever, Vendome Press, 2021

 

Mulfinger, Dale, Cabinology: A Handbook to Your Private Hideaway, The Taunton Press, 2008

 

Parolek, Daniel G., Missing Middle Housing: Thinking Big and Building Small to Respond to Today’s Housing Crisis, Island Press, 2020

 

Perry, Andre M., Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities, Brookings Institution Press, 2020

 

Phillips, Shane, The Affordable City: Strategies for Putting Housing Within Reach (and Keeping it There), Island Press, 2020

 

Pietila, Antero, Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City, Ivan R. Dee; Illustrated edition, 2010

 

Richmond, Peter, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Buying a Home, Alpha, 2010

 

Rosen, Eva, The Voucher Promise: "Section 8" and the Fate of an American Neighborhood, Princeton University Press; Reprint edition, 2022

 

Rothstein, Richard, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, Liveright; Reprint edition, 2018

 

Ruiz, Fernando Pages, Building an Affordable House 2nd Edition: Trade Secrets to High-Value, Low-Cost Construction, Taunton, 2024

 

Ryan-Collins, Josh, Toby Lloyd, Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing, Bloomsbury Academic, 2023

 

Schuetz, Jenny, Fixer-Upper: How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems, Brookings Institution Press, 2022

 

Schwartz, Alex F., Housing Policy in the United States, Routledge; 4th edition  2021

 

Shaw, Randy, Generation Priced Out, University of California Press; 2020

 

Sim, David, Jan Gehl, Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life, Island Press, 2019

 

Slater, Gene, Freedom to Discriminate: How Realtors Conspired to Segregate Housing and Divide America, Heyday, 2021

 

Stein, Samuel, Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State (Jacobin), Verso, 2019

 

Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta, Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (Justice, Power, and Politics), University of North Carolina Press, 2021

 

Thurston, Chloe N., At the Boundaries of Homeownership: Credit, Discrimination, and the American State, Cambridge University Press, 2018

 

Trench, Scott, Mindy Jensen, First-Time Home Buyer: The Complete Playbook to Avoiding Rookie Mistakes, BiggerPockets, 2021

 

Wiese, Andrew, Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century (Historical Studies of Urban America), University of Chicago Press; New edition, 2005

 

Williams, Rhonda Y., The Politics of Public Housing: Black Women's Struggles against Urban Inequality (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities), Oxford University Press, 2005


Wing, Charlie, How Your House Works: A Visual Guide to Understanding and Maintaining Your Home, (RSMeans), RSMeans, 2025


Wing, Charlie, Visual Handbook of Building and Remodeling: A Comprehensive Guide to Choosing the Right Materials and Systems for Every Part of Your Home/5th Edition, Taunton Press; Comprehensive edition, 2023


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