“I wanted it to feel more like a novel than a newspaper article.”īy most metrics, San Francisco is the most expensive city in the United States. “Housing policy is fucking boring,” Dougherty tells Curbed. Instead, Dougherty follows a cast of characters, each facing their own housing struggles, and each with their own ideas about how to fix the vast inequities in the area’s housing market Golden Gates is ostensibly a policy book, but in it you won’t find a list of wonky recommendations on how to solve the Bay Area’s housing crisis. But they are reviews Conor Dougherty, Oakland-based reporter for the New York Times, has received for his new release, Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America. These aren’t descriptors one would usually associate with a book on housing policy. “Improbably stylish.” “Surprisingly riveting.” “A hypnotic tale.”
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