Build or Die: How America Is Suffocating Its Cities and What to Do About It

From a leading voice of the pro-housing movement comes a blueprint for revitalizing America’s major citiesCities like New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco are in crisis.Chronic housing shortages are driving countless middle-class and working-class households out of high-opportunity areas.Homelessness is skyrocketing. Cars continue to rule city streets, poisoning the climate and putting everyone’s health and safety at risk. And city governments, instead of rising to meet the challenge, are increasingly dysfunctional and unaccountable.Build or Die traces the history of a disaster a century in the making, detailing how shortsighted and reactionary policy decisions led to the interlocking crisis that threatens America’s great cities. Veteran urban policy analyst and journalist Ned Resnikoff cuts through the noise surrounding these issues, revealing exactly how we got here, and describes the work that a generation of urban reformers and activists have already been doing to make their co