Poverty & Homelessness
-
Blighted: A Story of People, Politics, and an American Housing Miracle
$30.95 Add to cartBlighted is a powerful narrative about the decades-long decay and remarkable two-year reinvention of Summerdale, an aging apartment community located in one of Atlanta’s grittiest corridors. From burn
- Author: Stagmeier, Margaret
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1588384713
- Language: English
-
10th Anniversary Edition The Life You Can Save: How To Do Your Part To End World Poverty
$19.95 Add to cartIn this Tenth Anniversary Edition of The Life You Can Save, Peter Singer brings his landmark book up to date. In addition to restating his compelling arguments about how we should respond to extreme p
- Author: Singer, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: December 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1733672702
- Language: English
-
$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
$18.99 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book of the Year
The story of a kind of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, don’t even think exists–from a leading national poverty expert who “defies conventi… [more below]- Author: Edin, Kathryn J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 13 2016
- ISBN10: 054481195X
- Language: English
-
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
$30.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE – NAMED ONE OF TIME‘S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE – One of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic “has set a new… [more below]
- Author: Desmond, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0553447432
- Language: English
-
Trash: A Poor White Journey
$28.99 Read moreHuman beings are not trash, and the system that enables humans to imagine each other as such needs to end.
Every day across the US, 66 million poor white people pay the price for failing whiteness. In
- Author: Monroe, Cedar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 235
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1506486274
- Language: English
-
The Divide: Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets
$28.99 Add to cartMore than four billion people–some 60 percent of humanity–live in debilitating poverty, on less than $5 per day. The standard narrative tells us this crisis is a natural phenomenon, having to do wit
- Author: Hickel, Jason
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 13 2018
- ISBN10: 0393651363
- Language: English
-
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
$20.00 Add to cartWINNER: The 2019 Lillian Smith Book Award, 2018 McGannon Center Book Prize, and shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice
Astra Taylor, author of The People’s- Author: Eubanks, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 6, 2019
- ISBN10: 1250215781
- Language: English
-
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
$21.00 Add to cartThis New York Times bestseller intimately depicts urban life in a gripping book that slips behind cold statistics and sensationalism to reveal the true sagas lurking behind the headlines of gangsta gl… [more below]
- Author: LeBlanc, Adrian Nicole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 10 2004
- ISBN10: 0743254430
- Language: English
-
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
$20.00 Add to cartPULITZER PRIZE WINNER – NATIONAL BESTSELLER – A “vivid and devastating” (The New York Times) portrait of an indomitable girl–from acclaimed journalist Andrea Elliott
“From its first indelible pages- Author: Elliott, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: May 24, 2022
- ISBN10: 0812986954
- Language: English
-
When We Walk by: Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America
$20.95 Add to cartHow to end homelessness in America: a must-read guide to understanding housing instability, supporting our unhoused neighbors, and reclaiming our humanity.
A deeply humanizing analysis that will chang- Author: Adler, Kevin F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: November 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 1623178843
- Language: English
-
A Place Called Home: A Memoir
$30.00 Read morePORCHLIGHT BESTSELLER
A galvanizing, stirring memoir about growing up homeless and in foster care and rising to become a leading advocate for child welfare, recogni
Zibby Owens 2022 Book of the Year- Author: Ambroz, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 13, 2022
- ISBN10: 0306903547
- Language: English
-
I Can’t Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street
$18.00 Read moreA work of riveting literary journalism that explores the roots and repercussions of the infamous killing of Eric Garner by the New York City police–from the bestselling author of The Divide
NAMED ONE- Author: Taibbi, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 04, 2018
- ISBN10: 081298885X
- Language: English
-
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE – NAMED ONE OF TIME‘S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE – One of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic “has set a new… [more below]
- Author: Desmond, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 28 2017
- ISBN10: 0553447459
- Language: English
