Government Real Estate

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    • How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
    • By: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 111 ratings
    • Narrating the story of a sea-change in housing policy and its dire impact on African Americans, Race for Profit reveals how the urban core was transformed into a new frontier of cynical extraction....

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    • A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
    • By: Richard Rothstein
    • Narrated by: Adam Grupper
    • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 07-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4,669 ratings
    • In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein explodes the myth that America's cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation....

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    • The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming
    • By: Andreas Malm
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 18 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 02-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • How capitalism first promoted fossil fuels with the rise of steam power....

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    • Chasing Water and Dust Across California
    • By: Mark Arax
    • Narrated by: Mark Arax
    • Length: 25 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-21-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 250 ratings
    • A vivid, searching journey into California's capture of water and soil - the epic story of a people's defiance of nature and the wonders, and ruin, it has wrought....

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    • The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis
    • By: Charles L. Marohn Jr., Daniel Herriges
    • Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 05-21-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • This book offers a serious, yet accessible, history of housing policy in the United States and explains how it led us to this point in time: where we face a market that is rigged against people who, only a few decades ago, could have been homeowners or stable, long-term rentals.

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    • By: Thomas Sowell
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 05-13-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,256 ratings
    • This book is designed to unravel the tangled threads of the 2008-2009 financial crisis....

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    • Gentrification and the Real Estate State
    • By: Samuel Stein
    • Narrated by: Emily Beresford
    • Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • Our cities are changing. Around the world, more and more money is being invested in buildings and land. Real estate is now a $217 trillion-dollar industry, worth 36 times the value of all the gold ever mined....

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    • How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street's Great Foreclosure Fraud
    • By: David Dayen
    • Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
    • Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 575 ratings
    • In the depths of the Great Recession, a cancer nurse, a car dealership worker, and an insurance fraud specialist helped uncover the largest consumer crime in American history....

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    • How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class - and What We Can Do About It
    • By: Richard Florida
    • Narrated by: Traber Burns
    • Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 204 ratings
    • In recent years the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline....

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    • The Birth of a National Scandal
    • By: Jim McDougal, Curtis Wilkie
    • Narrated by: Lloyd James
    • Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 98 ratings
    • McDougal's vivid self-portrait, completed only days before his death....

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    • How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins, Hedge Fund Magnates, Crooked Banks, and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions out of Their Homes and Demolished the American Dream
    • By: Aaron Glantz
    • Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
    • Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 195 ratings
    • In the spirit of Evicted, Bait and Switch, and The Big Short, a shocking, heart-wrenching investigation into America’s housing crisis and the modern-day robber barons who are making a fortune off the backs of the disenfranchised working and middle class...

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    • How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It From Happening Again
    • By: Atif Mian, Amir Sufi
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 12-17-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 155 ratings
    • Atif Mian and Amir Sufi reveal in House of Debt how the Great Recession and Great Depression were caused by a large run-up in household debt....

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    • How the Pope's Children Rewrote the Rules for Ireland
    • By: David McWilliams
    • Narrated by: David McWilliams
    • Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 11-21-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • In four decades, bookended by the Pope’s visits to Ireland in September 1979 and August 2018, Ireland has become one of the wealthiest and most progressive nations in the world....

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    • Participatory Politics and America's Housing Crisis
    • By: David M. Glick, Maxwell Palmer, Katherine Levine Einstein
    • Narrated by: Linda Jones
    • Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-25
    • Language: English
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    • This book examines how local participatory land use institutions amplify the power of entrenched interests and privileged homeowners, resulting in diminished housing stock and higher housing costs, with participatory institutions perversely reproducing inequality.

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    • How Our American Dream of Homeownership Became a Nightmare
    • By: Ryan Dezember
    • Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
    • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 07-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • His assignment was to write about a real-estate frenzy lighting up the Redneck Riviera. So Ryan Dezember settled in and bought a home nearby himself. Then the market crashed, and he became one of the millions of Americans who suddenly owed more on their homes than they were worth....

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    • How Today's Global Financial Crisis Happened, and What to Do about It
    • By: Robert J. Shiller
    • Narrated by: Stow Lovejoy
    • Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-08
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • The subprime mortgage crisis has already wreaked havoc on the lives of millions of people....

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    • An Aunt Madge Story in the Jolie Gentil Series
    • By: Elaine L. Orr
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-24
    • Language: English
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    • Remember when candidates were polite and talked about issues? Well in Ocean Alley at the Jersey Shore, they still do. Well, there was the issue ...

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    • Wie die Immobilienspekulation das Land spaltet und was wir dagegen tun können
    • By: Caren Lay
    • Narrated by: Simon Diez
    • Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-22
    • Language: German
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    • Die Wohnungsfrage ist die soziale Frage unserer Zeit. Wohnungen sind zu reinen Spekulations­objekten verkommen. Hohe Nachfrage und sogenannte Zwangssanierungen lassen die Mieten explodieren und zwar nicht nur in den Großstädten, sondern auch im Umland....

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