The Real Dirt on the American Dream : Home Ownership and Democracy

From the European history that brought settlers to the New World to the building of public parks and the battle to maintain public holdings in the face of demands for more privatization, from tricks on how to make your home more valuable to the realities of affordabilty, this is a book that speaks to who we are and how we got that way... and how our way of life is threatened by high housing costs and homelessness.