
Today, however, punishing rents and the increasingly prohibitive cost of ownership have turned housing into the foremost symbol of inequality and an economy gone wrong. Spacious and affordable homes used to be the hallmark of American prosperity. “Tells the story of housing in all its complexity.” -NPR

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