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Bezig met laden... Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America (2020)door Conor Dougherty
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Good exposition of the housing crises in SF and the nearby areas, with similarities in metro areas around the country. A focus on the YIMBY movement which encourages new housing construction, but also a lot about their NIMBY opponents, tenant-advocates, developers, pro-rent control people, anti-gentrification activists, politicians, academics, etc. It’s complicated and certainly no “solution” is going to be good for everyone. Lots of interesting personalities involved, no perfect heroes. ( ) Everything could be luxury housing Protections for tenants for being cleansed Hard left The filtering fallacy Sf - about people who live here vs invaders No less immune to global forces BARF no way to stop what was happening - entitled arrogance Veneer of social justice Libertarian fuckboy Sarah mexana America’s radioactive Not building those new power stations No industry The destruction of California The good intention of stopping sprawl Ceqa Jerry brown era of limits Behind the facade of cultural hype The home voter hypothesis Prop 13 Lakewood and Compton Rental vouchers vs mortgage interest deduction Lytec credits 827 hill Exclusionary zoning v displacement Affordable housing can only live in 20 percent of city Patronizing tone about voters in the trauss election campaign To be honest, I wish I'd liked this book. Why and how housing markets in the US have so quickly become unaffordable to so many people is a ripe topic for everyone, and it's clear that the San Francisco Bay Area is a prime example. Plus the author clearly did his homework on understanding the household-level scale of people that work hard and want to contribute to their communities but are outmatched by profit-seeking parties that are exponentially wealthier. And as a bonus, the topic has much relevance for both my professional and personal lives, as an urban planner in a very-high-cost market that can't afford a down payment on a house even after 10+ years of continuous professional employment and diligent savings. Unfortunately, this title used a hyper-fixation on a handful of personalities and local elections as a vehicle for that story, and it didn't work for me. Yes, it's important what outspoken activists that are running for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors propose to do about housing affordability. And yes, it matters how local communities organize to oppose the well-funded real estate lobby. But the most salient parts of what will become of housing politics in San Francisco and places like it were totally left out. Most important example: the person that actually won the election! We heard nothing about them or what their governance eventually did or didn't contribute to solving this problem, because that crucial part of the book was instead a minute-by-minute depiction of what the losing challenger did after the polls closed on Election Night. This needed an editor with a sense of what contributes to the book's overall point. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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"Spacious and affordable homes used to be the hallmark of American prosperity. Today, however, punishing rents and the increasingly prohibitive cost of ownership have turned housing into the foremost symbol of inequality and an economy gone wrong. Nowhere is this more visible than in the San Francisco Bay Area, where fleets of private buses ferry software engineers past the tarp-and-plywood shanties where the homeless make their homes. The adage that California is a glimpse of the nation's future has become a cautionary tale. With propulsive storytelling and ground-level reporting, New York Times journalist Conor Dougherty chronicles America's housing crisis from its West Coast epicenter, peeling back the decades of history and economic forces that brought us here and taking readers inside the activist uprisings that have risen in tandem with housing costs. To tell this new story of housing, Dougherty follows a struggling math teacher who builds a political movement dedicated to ending single-family-house neighborhoods. A teenage girl who leads her apartment complex against their rent-raising landlord. A nun who tries to outmaneuver private equity investors by amassing a multimillion-dollar portfolio of affordable homes. A suburban bereaucrat who roguishly embraces density in response to the threat of climate change. A developer who manufactures housing for the homeless on an assembly line. Sweeping in scope and intimate in detail, Golden Gates captures a vast political realignment during a moment of rapid technological and social change."-- Jacket.
"Cities are the engines of economic progress and the places that give birth to ideas that shape our lives. For generations, arriving in a major city was the first step toward the American Dream. But as housing costs skyrocket in job-rich cities across the nation, that door to opportunity is swinging shut. No place has felt this more acutely than the San Francisco Bay Area, where the mansions of tech billionaires stand streets away from encampments of cardboard. With riveting block-by-block reporting, New York Times reporter Conor Dougherty parses the history and economic forces that underlie the crisis from its epicenter. As rising rents and home prices have spread across the country, massive movements against single-family zoning and for tenants' rights have followed"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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