{"product_id":"golden-gates-the-housing-crisis-and-a-reckoning-for-the-american-dream-9780525560234","title":"Golden Gates: The Housing Crisis and a Reckoning for the American Dream","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eA\u003ci\u003e Time \u003c\/i\u003e100 Must-Read Book of 2020 \u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eBook Review Editors' Choice \u003cbr\u003eNamed a top 30 must-read Book of 2020 by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed one of the 10 Best Business Books of 2020 by\u003ci\u003e Fortune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed A Must-Read Book of 2020 by \u003ci\u003eApartment Therapy \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRunner-Up General Nonfiction: San Francisco Book Festival\u003cbr\u003eA Planetizen Top Urban Planning Book of 2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eShortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA stunning, deeply reported investigation into the housing crisis  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSpacious 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith propulsive storytelling and ground-level reporting, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo 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 teenaged 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 bureaucrat who roguishly embraces density in response to the threat of climate change. A developer who manufactures homeless housing on an assembly line. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSweeping in scope and intimate in detail, \u003ci\u003eGolden Gates\u003c\/i\u003e captures a vast political realignment during a moment of rapid technological and social change. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/16\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780525560234\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.44h x 5.50w x 0.69d","brand":"Conor Dougherty","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38294792634549,"sku":"9780525560234","price":16.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_1cd69da4-b72e-43ef-99ae-eb8771c5d634.jpg?v=1611068565","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/golden-gates-the-housing-crisis-and-a-reckoning-for-the-american-dream-9780525560234","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}