Yes to the City
Millennials and the Fight for Affordable Housing
$31.50
- Paperback
216 pages
- Release Date
6 May 2024
Summary
The exorbitant costs of urban housing and the widening gap in income inequality are fueling a combative new movement in cities around the world. A growing number of influential activists aren’t waiting for new public housing to be built. Instead, they’re calling for more construction and denser cities in order to increase affordability.
Yes to the City offers an in-depth look at the ‘Yes in My Backyard’ (YIMBY) movement. From its origins in San Francisco to its current cadre …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780691259116 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0691259119 |
| Author: | Max Holleran |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Imprint: | Princeton University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 216 |
| Release Date: | 6 May 2024 |
| Weight: | 336g |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 235mm |
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Critics Review
“Yes to the City: Millennials and the Fight for Affordable Housing focuses on the fascinating conflict between Yimbys and some more-progressive groups, including old-line environmentalists and community activists… . You don’t need to agree with all of Mr. Holleran’s policy perspectives to appreciate his keen grasp of the progressive forces aligned against the Yimby fight for affordable housing.”—Edward Glaeser, Wall Street Journal
“A compelling account of outcomes and consequences of activism… . Holleran’s analysis of how past activist struggles and successes laid out a foundation for future complications and new controversies is likely to provoke lively class discussions in courses on urban sociology and social movements.”—Anna Zhelnina, Social Forces
“Compelling narrative and accessible writing… . An important contribution because it describes the origin of this influential and growing global housing movement.”—Gregg Colburn, Journal of the American Planning Association
“The most authoritative study of the rise of YIMBYism and its spread throughout the United States and beyond.”—Alistair Sisson, The Conversation
”[A] well-documented discussion of the growing YIMBY movement and the issues that arise when it attempts to make an impact on local housing policy.”—Jan Rouwendal, Journal of Housing and the Built Environment
Max Holleran
Max Holleran is an Urban Studies Foundation Research Fellow and lecturer in sociology at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of Tourism, Urbanization, and the Evolving Periphery of the European Union.
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