Golden gates conor dougherty5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() The adage that California is a glimpse of the nation’s future has become a cautionary tale. Nowhere is this more visible than in the San Francisco Bay Area, where fleets of private buses ferry software engineers past the tarp-and-plywood shanties of the homeless. ![]() Today, however, punishing rents and the increasingly prohibitive cost of ownership have turned housing into the foremost symbol of inequality and an economy gone wrong. Spacious and affordable homes used to be the hallmark of American prosperity. “Tells the story of housing in all its complexity.” -NPR Shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice.A Planetizen Top Urban Planning Book of 2020. ![]()
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