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Fear, Prejudice, and Real Estate
Beacon Press
May 2013
On Sale: May 7, 2013
208 pages
ISBN: 0807001570
EAN: 9780807001578
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
An exploration of the corrosive effects of overpriced
housing, exclusionary zoning, and the flight of the younger
population in the Northeast
As anyone of
moderate income who has wanted to buy a house or condo in
the Northeast knows, young couples and families are
increasingly being priced out of the market. And the housing
crisis only drove up rents. As a result, young people are
leaving the region entirely: six northeastern states now
rank among the top ten nationally in age of their residents.
In Snob Zones, Lisa Prevost argues that rising
housing costs and a huge increase in restrictive zoning laws
are undermining the very notion of community. Prevost
illustrates this issue with eye-opening stories that
illustrate the outrageous lengths to which towns will go to
exclude the less affluent. She takes readers from
notoriously upper-crust Darien, Connecticut, to a rural
second-home town that is so restrictive its celebrity
residents may soon outnumber its children and a northern
lake community that brazenly deems itself out of bounds for
apartment dwellers. This “every town for itself” mentality
is threatening the social health and economic vitality of
the region, argues Prevost in this thought-provoking
exploration of what it means to be a community in
post-recession America.
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