Introduction -- Housing Central: HGTV -- The Power of Positive Real Estate Workshops -- From Realtor Magazine to the Financial Times: How Print Media Covered the Global Financial Crisis -- Journalists, Filmmakers, and the Gendering of Looking Backward -- Looking Up and Down: Anthropology, Horror Films, and the Financial Crisis -- New Media and Residential Real Estate -- Coda. From the Great Recession to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Summary
"Two decades punctuated by the financial crisis of the Great Recession and the public health crisis of COVID-19 have powerfully reshaped housing in America. By integrating social, economic, intellectual, and cultural histories, this illuminating work shows how powerful forces have both reflected and catalyzed shifts in the way Americans conceptualize what a house is for, in an era that has laid bare the larger structures and inequities of the economy"-- Provided by publisher
