A Beautiful Ghetto
by Devin Allen. Documents the 2015 Baltimore uprising in response to the police shooting of Freddie Gray, capturing the life of his... Read More
Affordable Housing in US Shrinking Cities: From Neighborhoods of Despair to Neighborhoods of Opportunity?
By Robert Silverman. Looks at the reasons for the failure (and success) of affordable housing efforts in the fastest-shrinking US cities by... Read More
Climbing Mount Laurel: The Struggle for Affordable Housing and Social Mobility in an American Suburb
Looking at Mount Laurel, New Jersey, which has become synonymous with the debate over affordable housing policy designed to create economically integrated... Read More
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
By Matthew Desmond. Explores the stories of tenants and landlords in the poorest areas of Milwaukee arguing that eviction undermines self, family,... Read More
Homeless Outreach & Housing First: Lessons Learned
By Jay Levy. Features 3 works on homelessness including an article on moral, fiscal, and quality of life considerations, a story entitled... Read More
Housing First: Ending Homelessness, Transforming Systems and Changing Lives
By Deborah Padgett, Benjamin Henwood and Sam Tsemberis. Chronicles the story of Housing First (HF), a paradigm-shifting evidence-based approach to ending homelessness... Read More
Housing First: The Pathways Model to End Homelessness for People with Mental Illness and Addiction
By Sam Tsemberis. This step-by-step manual provides a foundation for introducing the evidence-based Housing First approach–provide housing first, followed by supportive treatment... Read More
Housing the Nation: Social Equity, Architecture, and the Future of Affordable Housing
Edited by Alexander Gorlin and Victoria Newhouse. A collection of essays by economists, scholars, architects, planners, and community organizers to address diverse aspects of... Read More
How to Remake the World Neighborhood by Neighborhood
By Mack McCarter & Tim Muldoon. Narrates the story and philosophy of Community Renewal International (CRI), an organization founded in Shreveport, Louisiana. Tells... Read More
Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law
By Richard Rothstein & Leah Rothstein. Offers programs that activists and their supporters can undertake in their own communities to address historical... Read More
National Alliance to End Homelessness Source Book on Family Homelessness Problems and Solutions
Has information, tools, strategies, best practices, research and a model plan to end homelessness. Read more.
Sojourners
Encourages Christians to put their faith into action in the passionate pursuit of social justice, peace, and environmental stewardship through resources like... Read More
Trespass: Portraits of Unhoused Life, Love, and Understanding
By Kim Watson. Offers an honest and unflinching depiction of the beauty and humanity of the nearly 70,000 people unhoused in Los... Read More
Where Children Sleep
By James Mollison. Presents large-format photographs of children’s bedrooms around the world–from the US, Mexico, Brazil, England, Italy, Israel and the West... Read More