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Best Books About Housing

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A History of Housing in New York City
by Richard Plunz (Columbia University Press, 1990.)

Plunz, an architect and historian from Columbia University, shows how New York City’s housing mix and housing problems came to be, tracing development from 1850 to 1990. The book includes over 300 illustrations and plenty of tales of both greed and good intentions. more info...

Housing and Community Development in New York City: Facing the Future
by Michael H. Schill (editor) (State University of New York Press, 1999.)

Schill collected and edited the assessments of leading experts on New York City’s current housing and community development problems and policy. This book examines governmental responses to the city’s greatest housing woes – including homelessness and abandonment -- discussing the failures and highlighting the successes. more info...

 

Scarcity By Design: The Legacy of New York City's Housing Policies
by Peter D. Salins, Gerard C.S. Mildner (Harvard University Press, 1992.)

Peter Salins of the Manhattan Institute argues that many governmental policies including zoning and rent regulation helped create the city’s affordable housing crisis. more info...

The Tenant Movement in New York City, 1904-1984
by Ronald Lawson and Mark Naison (Rutgers University Press, 1986.)

A great resource on the evolution of tenant life – from the landlord as czar period, to post-war crises and the arrival of rent regulation, to tenant power movements. Covers noteworthy tenant activity, as well as landlord and government responses. more info...

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