In Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America, Conor Dougherty focuses on the ever-growing housing shortage by sharing stories from those living in the cities of the Bay Area, California. While stagnant wage growth has contributed to this issue, an increasing imbalance between supply and demand in the housing market is a major feature of the problem. There is no state where an individual working a full-time minimum-wage job can afford a one-bedroom housing unit without paying in excess of 30% of their income, the standard benchmark for affordability. Nora Louise Schwaller reflects on Conor Dougherty’s Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America. This week, we are featuring another book review from Volume 46 of the Carolina Planning Journal, The White Problem in Planning.
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