Alyssa Katz, Our Lot: How Real Estate Came to Own Us Bloomsbury, 2009
The meltdown of the US housing market is visible to anyone living in northern or central California, where foreclosed houses dot our urban, rural, and suburban landscapes. Journalist Alyssa Katz describes how the idea of owning one's own house has been actively fostered by a government wanting to generate private economic growth and abandon public housing. (Encore broadcast.)