Randy Shaw Boeken

Focusing on the national housing affordability crisis, this book offers a city-by-city analysis of the issues affecting communities, such as long commutes and housing instability. It encourages a reevaluation of strategies within the progressive community to enhance economic and racial diversity through increased affordable housing. By highlighting the interconnectedness of these challenges, it presents a compelling case for urgent action and innovative solutions to address the growing disparities in housing access.

"Generation Priced Out is a call for action on one of the most talked about issues of our time: how skyrocketing rents and home values are pricing out the working and middle-class from urban America. Telling the stories of tenants, developers, politicians, homeowner groups, and housing activists from over a dozen cities impacted by the national housing crisis, Generation Priced Out criticizes cities for advancing policies that increase economic and racial inequality. Shaw also exposes how boomer homeowners restrict millennials' access to housing in big cities, a generational divide that increasingly dominates city politics. Defying conventional wisdom, Shaw demonstrates that rising urban unaffordability and neighborhood gentrification are not inevitable. He offers proven measures for cities to preserve and expand their working- and middle-class populations and achieve more equitable and inclusive outcomes. Generation Priced Out is a must-read for anyone concerned about the future of urban America"--Provided by publisher