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  Golden Gates: The Housing Crisis and a Reckoning for the American Dream READ MORE Golden Gates: The Housing Crisis and a Reckoning for the American Dream A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A stunning, deeply reported investigation into the housing crisisSpacious and affordable homes used to be the hallmark of American prosperity. 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. Nowhere is this more visible than in the San Francisco Bay Area, where fleets of private buses ferry software engineers past the tarp-and-plywood shanties where the homeless make their homes. The adage that California is a glimpse of the nation's future has become a cautionary tale.With propulsive storytelling and ground-level reporting, New York Times journalist Conor Dougherty chronicles America's housing crisis from its West Coast epicenter, peeling back the decade...