MEHC Recommendations
Here you can find materials and resources MEHC recommends to deepen your understanding on the affordable housing crisis.
MEHC Recommended Books
These are books that will deepen understanding on a broad array of affordable housing related topics. If you would like to suggest any additional books, you can contact info@marinmehc.org.
- The Color of Law , by Richard Rothstein- This is a must read for anyone interested in the work of MEHC. Even if you think you know the history of redlining, you will find this book eye-opening and appalling.
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities, by Jane Jacobs.
- Evicted – Property and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond.
- The High Cost of Free Parking, by Donald Shoup
- Homelessness is a Housing Problem, by Gregg Colburn, Clayton Page Aldern
- I Am Applicant, by Matt Smith. Details the experience of a Sausalito resident in getting a permit to remodel his home.
- Paved Paradise – How Parking Explains the World, by Henry Grabar
- Suburban Nation, by Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Jeff Speck
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