Generation Priced Out is a call to action on one of the most talked-about issues of our time: how skyrocketing rents and home values are pricing the working and middle classes out of urban America. Randy Shaw tells the powerful stories of tenants, politicians, homeowner groups, developers, and activists in over a dozen cities impacted by the national housing crisis. From San Francisco to New York, Seattle to Denver, and Los Angeles to AustinGeneration Priced Out challenges progressive cities to reverse rising economic and racial inequality.
 
Shaw exposes how boomer homeowners restrict millennials’ access to housing in big cities, a generational divide that increasingly dominates city politics. Shaw also demonstrates that neighborhood gentrification is not inevitable and presents 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.

 

Generation Priced Out is a call to action on one of the most talked-about issues of our time: how skyrocketing rents and home values are pricing the working and middle classes out of urban America. Randy Shaw tells the powerful stories of tenants, politicians, homeowner groups, developers, and activists in over a dozen cities impacted by the national housing crisis. From San Francisco to New York, Seattle to Denver, and Los Angeles to AustinGeneration Priced Out challenges progressive cities to reverse rising economic and racial inequality.
 
Shaw exposes how boomer homeowners restrict millennials’ access to housing in big cities, a generational divide that increasingly dominates city politics. Shaw also demonstrates that neighborhood gentrification is not inevitable and presents 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.

 

Preface to the Paperback Edition
Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 • Battling Displacement in the New San Francisco
2 • A Hollywood Ending for Los Angeles Housing Woes?
3 • Keeping Austin Diverse
4 • Can Building Housing Lower Rents? Seattle and Denver Say Yes
5 • Will San Francisco Open Its Golden Gates to the Working and Middle Class?
6 • Millennials Battle Boomers Over Housing
7 • Get Off My Lawn! How Neighborhood Groups Stop Housing
8 • New York City, Oakland, and San Francisco’s Mission District: The Fight to Preserve Racial Diversity
Conclusion: Ten Steps to Preserve Cities’ Economic and Racial Diversity
    
Notes
Index