Fixer-Upper: How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems by Jenny Schuetz

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/588041 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fixer-Upper: How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems Author: Jenny Schuetz Narrator: Suzie Althens Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 46 minutes Release date: May 31, 2022 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Much ink has been spilled in recent years talking about political divides and inequality in the United States. But these discussions too often miss one of the most important factors in the divisions among Americans: the fundamentally unequal nature of the nation's housing systems. And this divide deepens other inequalities. Increasingly, important life outcomes—performance in school, employment, even life expectancy—are determined by where people live and the quality of homes they live in. Public policies enacted by federal, state, and local governments helped create and reinforce the bad housing outcomes endured by too many people. Taxes, zoning, institutional discrimination, and the location and quality of schools, roads, public transit, and other public services are among the policies that created inequalities in the nation's housing patterns. Fixer-Upper is the first book assessing how the broad set of local, state, and national housing policies affect people and communities. It proposes practical policy changes than can make stable, decent-quality housing more available and affordable for all Americans in all communities.