George Lipsitz is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Black Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of over a dozen books and recipient of the Angela Y. Davis Prize for Public Scholarship.

• ContentsForeword by Robin D. G. Kelley Acknowledgments Introduction: Housing, Health, and Proximity to Toxicity PART I: WHO HURTS?1 Save the Children: Precautionary Principles for Housing and Health Justice 2 “Livin’ in the Red”: Housing as a Health Problem and Health as a Housing Problem 3 If You’re Ready: Responding to Health and Housing Emergencies PART II: WHAT HURTS?4 Cash in Your Face: Appraisals, Assessments, and Predatory Extraction 5 If It Ain’t One Thing, It’s Another: Gender, Housing, Health, and Mass Incarceration6 Born under a Bad Sign: Race-Based Risk Assessment in Insurance, Housing, and Health PART III: WHAT HELPS?7 Wade in the Water: An Active Engaged Public Sphere for Health and Housing Justice 8 Everything Is Everything: Health and Housing as Human Rights and Public Goods 9 Hard Times (No One Knows Better Than I): The Bitter but Beautiful Struggle Notes Works Cited Index

“Those who choose to spend time with this hefty, career-defining book will have the chance to engage with not only Lipsitz’s intellect but with his obvious appreciation for the humanity, and not only the vexing injustices, of life in the United States.”