Alyssa Katz

    By Zac Bissonnette

    | 4:00PM 7/07/2009
    A cavalcade of books purporting to explain the roots of the housing crisis have emerged over the past few months, but Alyssa Katz's Our Lot: How Real Estate Came to Own Us stands out as the best one yet. Beginning with Herbert Hoover's "Better Homes in America" campaign in the 1920s, Katz traces...