Recommended Books
- On the Housing Crisis by Jerusalem Demsas
- Generation Priced Out by Randy Shaw
- Fixer-Upper by Jenny Schuetz
- Golden Gates by Connor Dougherty
- The Affordable City by Shane Phillips
Recommended Videos
- “The REAL Problem with ‘Luxury Housing’“ from “AboutHere”
- “How the US Made Affordable Homes Illegal” and “In Defense of the ‘Gentrification Building’” from Vox
- “Liberal Hypocrisy is Fueling American Inequality” from the New York Times
- “Cruel Musical Chairs” from the Sightline Institute
- “Four Harmful Myths About Housing Affordability” and “Single-Family Zoning: Just ‘Giving People What They Want’?” from “Oh The Urbanity!”
Recommended Articles
Asheville Voices
- “Aesthetic Anti-capitalism is Hurting Asheville’s Working Class” by Andrew Paul, June 5, 2022.
- “Amendment Promotes Healthy Communities and the Environment” by Susan Bean, March 21, 2022.
- “Elitism and Scapegoating Won’t Solve Asheville’s Congestion, Affordable Housing and Sprawl” by Karen Ramshaw, September 16, 2019.
Research Reports
- “Supply Skepticism Revisited” by Vicki Been, et al., November 13, 2023.
- “Do new housing units in your backyard raise your rents?” by Xiaodi Li, December 2022.
- “Housing Underproduction in the U.S. 2022” by Up For Growth, July 2022.
- “City-wide Effects of New Housing Supply: Evidence from Moving Supply Chains” by Cristina Bratu et al., August 2021.
- “Research Roundup: The Effect of Market-Rate Development on Neighborhood Rents” by Shane Phillips, Michael Manville, and Michael Lens, February 2021.
- “Building More Housing Lowers Rents for Everyone” by Joe Cortright, December 2020.
- “To Understand a City’s Pace of Gentrification, Look at Its Housing Supply” by Laurie Goodman, Ellen Seidman, and Jun Zhu, June 2020
- “Supply Shock Versus Demand Shock: The Local Effects of New Housing in Low-Income Areas” by Brian Asquith, Evan Mast, and Davin Reed, January 2020
Zoning, Housing Supply, and Housing Costs
- “What Is Zoning Reform and Why Do We Need It?” by Patrick Sisson, January 18, 2023.
- “Cancel Zoning” by M. Nolan Gray, June 21, 2022.
- “Nine Reasons to End Exclusionary Zoning” by Dan Bertolet, September 29, 2021.
- “‘Exclusionary Zoning’ Is Opportunity Hoarding by Upper Middle Class” by Richard V. Reeves, May 24, 2017.
Housing Politics
- “‘America Is Not a Museum’: Why Democrats Are Going Big on Housing Despite the Risks” by Jordan Wolman and Melanie Mason, August 25, 2024.
- “Community Input Is Bad, Actually” by Jerusalem Demsas, April 22, 2022.
- “From the Labor Question to the Housing Question” by Ned Resnikoff, March 24, 2022
- “6 Things to Know About How Development Works” by Daniel Herriges, September 16, 2020
- “Build Build Build Build Build Build Build Build Build Build Build Build Build Build” by Conor Dougherty, February 13, 2020
Environmentalism and the Climate Crisis
- “Urban Land Use Reform: The Missing Key to Climate Action Strategies for Lowering Emissions, Increasing Housing Supply, and Conserving Land” by Ben Holland et al., April 12, 2023.
- “The People Who Hate People” by Jerusalem Demsas, May 24, 2022.
- “An Overlooked Climate Strategy: Denser Cities” by Alex Bozikovic, September 2, 2021
- “To Save the Planet, the Green New Deal Needs to Improve Urban Land Use,” by Jenny Schuetz, January 15, 2019.
What Is Gentrification?
- “Gentrification as a Housing Problem” by Anya Martin, May 17th, 2024.
- “What We Talk About When We Talk About Gentrification” by Jerusalem Demsas, September 5, 2021.
- “‘Gentrification’ Is Not the Real Problem” by Bo McMillan, June 18, 2021.
- “The Pandemic Disproved Urban Progressives’ Theory About Gentrification” by Jacob Anbinder, January 2, 2021.
- “What Does Gentrification Really Mean?” by Kea Wilson, August 2, 2017.
The Homelessness Crisis
Recommended Podcast Episodes
- Planet Money: “How to Fix a Housing Shortage,” August 30, 2024
- Factually! with Adam Conover: “How to Fix the Housing Crisis with Brian Hanlon,” September 21, 2022
- Why Is This Happening? with Chris Hayes, ”The Affordable Housing Crisis with Ned Resnikoff,” July 6, 2022.
- 99% Invisible, “The Missing Middle,” May 17, 2022
- Ezra Klein & Jerusalem Demsas, “How Blue Cities Became So Outrageously Unaffordable,” July 23, 2021
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