Social Housing

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    • How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
    • By: Gregg Colburn, Clayton Page Aldern
    • Narrated by: Adam Verner
    • Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 21-02-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Colburn and Aldern seek to explain the substantial regional variation in rates of homelessness in cities across the United States. In a departure from many analytical approaches, the authors shift their focus from the individual experiencing homelessness to the metropolitan area....

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    • By: Thomas Sowell
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 13-05-2009
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • This book is designed to unravel the tangled threads of the 2008-2009 financial crisis....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Stephanie Land
    • Narrated by: Stephanie Land
    • Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-2023
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • When Stephanie Land set out to write her memoir Maid, she never could have imagined what was to come. Handpicked by President Barack Obama as one of the best books of 2019, he called it an “unflinching look at America’s class divide…and a reminder of the dignity of all work.”

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    • The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis
    • By: Charles L. Marohn Jr., Daniel Herriges
    • Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 21-05-2024
    • Language: English
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    • This book offers a serious, yet accessible, history of housing policy in the United States and explains how it led us to this point in time: where we face a market that is rigged against people who, only a few decades ago, could have been homeowners or stable, long-term rentals.

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    • How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
    • By: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 24-03-2020
    • Language: English
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    • Narrating the story of a sea-change in housing policy and its dire impact on African Americans, Race for Profit reveals how the urban core was transformed into a new frontier of cynical extraction....

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    • By: Matthew Desmond
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 21-03-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • The United States is the richest country on earth, yet has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. In Poverty, by America, acclaimed sociologist Matthew Desmond examines the nature of American poverty today and the stories we tell ourselves about it....

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    • The People on the Frontline of Britain's Housing Emergency
    • By: Vicky Spratt
    • Narrated by: Vicky Spratt
    • Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 19-05-2022
    • Language: English
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    • In this fierce and moving account, journalist Vicky Spratt traces decades of bad policy decisions to show how and why the British dream of homeownership has withered and the safety net of social housing has broken....

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    • Our Future in Smarter, Simpler, Happier Housing
    • By: Diana Lind
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 13-10-2020
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A smart, provocative look at how the American dream of single-family homes, white picket fences, and two-car garages became a lonely, overpriced nightmare, and how new trends in housing can help us live better....

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    • Why No One Can Get a House, and What We Can Do About It
    • By: Rory Hearne
    • Narrated by: Rory Hearne
    • Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 29-09-2022
    • Language: English
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    • The book that has been waiting to be written—how Ireland’s housing policy has locked an entire generation out of the housing market and what we should do about it.....

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    • The Fight for Social Housing and a New American Commons
    • By: Jonathan Tarleton
    • Narrated by: Max Newland
    • Length: 6 hrs
    • Release date: 11-02-2025
    • Language: English
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    • In Homes for Living, urban planner and oral historian Jonathan Tarleton introduces listeners to two social housing co-ops in Brooklyn and Manhattan.

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    • Helping Couples, Youth, and Unaccompanied Adults
    • By: Jay S. Levy
    • Narrated by: Lisa Negrón
    • Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 16-12-2019
    • Language: English
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    • This audiobook provides social workers, outreach clinicians, case managers, and concerned community members with a pretreatment guide for assisting homeless couples, youth, and single adults....

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    • How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems
    • By: Jenny Schuetz
    • Narrated by: Suzie Althens
    • Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 31-05-2022
    • Language: English
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    • Much ink has been spilled in recent years talking about political divides and inequality in the United States. But these discussions too often miss one of the most important factors in the divisions among Americans: the fundamentally unequal nature of the nation's housing systems....

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    • 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
    • By: Aaron Glantz
    • Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
    • Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 15-10-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • In the spirit of Evicted, Bait and Switch, and The Big Short, a shocking, heart-wrenching investigation into America’s housing crisis and the modern-day robber barons who are making a fortune off the backs of the disenfranchised working and middle class...

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    • How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don't See
    • By: Richard D. Kahlenberg
    • Narrated by: Graham Winton
    • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-2023
    • Language: English
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    • An indictment of America's housing policy, Excluded reveals the social engineering underlying our segregation by economic class, the social and political fallout that result, and what we can do about it....

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    • "Section 8" and the Fate of an American Neighborhood
    • By: Eva Rosen
    • Narrated by: Xe Sands
    • Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 14-07-2020
    • Language: English
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    • The Voucher Promise examines the Housing Choice Voucher Program, colloquially known as "Section 8", and how it shapes the lives of families living in a Baltimore neighborhood called Park Heights....

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    • A Vicarious Memorandum
    • By: Eugene E. Jones
    • Narrated by: Eugene E. Jones Jr.
    • Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 20-11-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Empathetic and excellent advice from one of our nation's leading Housing Authority experts, having served in leadership roles across eight major U.S. cities and one in Canada....

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    • How the Ponzi House Crisis Was Contrived
    • By: Gary Anderson
    • Narrated by: Kenneth Lee
    • Length: 50 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-2014
    • Language: English
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    • A financial crime of the 21st century that makes Madoff look like an amateur because of scale. This crime is complex, but it is not rocket science. The proof of culpability can be known....

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    • Why Affordable Housing Is Good Policy, Good Business, and Good for America
    • By: Tony Bertoldi
    • Narrated by: Michael Reilly
    • Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 15-05-2024
    • Language: English
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    • What if there were one single way we could significantly improve the American economy, public health, and offer attractive investment opportunities, while also providing more homes for American families and workers?

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    • 15 Myths on Homelessness
    • By: Mary Brosnahan
    • Narrated by: Kristen Kallen-Keck
    • Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-2024
    • Language: English
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    • For fans of Andrea Elliott and Matthew Desmond, the former CEO of the Coalition for the Homeless breaks through the highly destructive misinformation surrounding our homeless neighbors.

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    • Ciudades, historias y luchas sobre la vivienda [Cities, Stories and Struggles over Housing]
    • By: Carla Escoffié, Zaida Muxí - prologue
    • Narrated by: Carla Escoffié
    • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-2023
    • Language: Spanish
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    • La crisis de vivienda existe y no podemos seguir ignorándola. Nuestras ciudades son cada vez más inhabitables: cada vez más caras, más distantes, más precarizadas y con menos servicios....

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