TY  - BOOK
AU  - Moskowitz,Peter
TI  - How to kill a city: gentrification, inequality, and the fight for the neighborhood 
SN  - 9781568585239
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Nation Books
KW  - Gentrification
KW  - United States
KW  - Equality
KW  - Urban poor
KW  - Middle class
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-245) and index
N2  - The term gentrification has become a buzzword to describe the changes in urban neighborhoods across the country, but we don't realize just how threatening it is. It means more than the arrival of trendy shops, much-maligned hipsters, and expensive lattes. The very future of American cities as vibrant, equitable spaces hangs in the balance. Peter Moskowitz's How to Kill a City takes readers from the kitchen tables of hurting families who can no longer afford their homes to the corporate boardrooms and political backrooms where destructive housing policies are devised. Along the way, Moskowitz uncovers the massive, systemic forces behind gentrification in New Orleans, Detroit, San Francisco, and New York. The deceptively simple question of who can and cannot afford to pay the rent goes to the heart of America's crises of race and inequality. In the fight for economic opportunity and racial justice, nothing could be more important than housing. A vigorous, hard-hitting expose, How to Kill a City reveals who holds power in our cities-and how we can get it back
ER  -