housing

Essays and photographs describe how the war effort, a housing shortage, and urban planning changed the United States and the shape of the American dream.

Collects fifteen critical essays that offer varying perspectives on issues that relate to America's subprime mortgage crisis of the twenty-first century, and discusses the effects of the housing crisis on neighborhoods, the responsibilities of Wall Street and the Federal Reserve, racial discrimination, and more.

A boy describes what it is like living in a hotel in New York City with his brother and his mother while she waits to find a job and an apartment.

Provides a world view of the homes that people live in and how they have changed over the ages. Includes sections on housing problems and solutions.

Presents stories of homes that Habitat for Humanity has built with and for the people who need them.

Explores sustainable homes around the world, discussing the effects houses have on the environment and giving suggestions for living more sustainably.

Unable to afford an apartment on their own, fifteen-year-old Katie and her mother reluctantly go to live with stubborn, eccentric Aunt Rose, who turns out to be not just a source of embarrassment, but an inspiration as well.

Tolly comes to live with his great-grandmother at the ancient house of Green Knowe and becomes friends with three children who lived there in the seventeenth century.

China Redd, an African-American woman who worked at the Roseberry plantation for forty-seven years, sets the record straight about what really went on between the white families and their slaves and servants throughout the hundred-year history of the house.

Discusses the concept of poverty as it relates to John Steinbeck's novel, "The Pearl.".