The book itself is conversational. Reviewing most of the quotes I pulled was uneventful; they don’t have much oomph excised from their textual home. If you liked hearing me ramble on about how I restarted my love affair with reading The New Yorker, you might dig the format of Gentrification: its pages give the reader space to stretch out and really bask in their own personal thoughts about what housing is, and should be. It is anecdote and suggestion, a personal story over coffee.

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