The Grand Rapids Area Coalition to End Homelessness is excited to offer a resource library for community members who are interested in learning more about housing issues and other social issues that relate to housing.
If you are interested in checking out a book, please contact Brianne. Books are available in our space in Heart of West Michigan United Way at 118 Commerce SW, Grand Rapids, MI 49503. All books are available individually. In addition, there are groups of books that can be checked out together and read book-club style. Some books have accompanying study guides to facilitate group discussion.
*Please return books within 6 weeks of check out.
Books and Reading Guides
| Title | Author | Number of Copies |
| A City Within A City: The Black Freedom Struggle in Grand Rapids, Michigan | Todd E. Robinson | 6 |
| Cross-Cultural Dialogues on Homelessness: From Pretreatment Strategies to Psychologically Informed Environments | Jay S. Levy with Robin Johnson | 6 |
| Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the AmericanCity *contains a Reader’s Guide | Matthew Desmond | 6 |
| Housing First: Ending Homelessness, Transforming Systems, and Changing Lives | Deborah K. Padgett, Benjamin F. Henwood, & Sam J. Tsemberis | 6 |
| Nickle and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America *contains a Reader’s Guide | Barbara Ehrenreich | 6 |
| Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing | Dr. Joy DeGury | 6 |
| The Study Guide: Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing | Dr. Joy DeGury | 1 |
| The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness | Michelle Alexander | 6 |
| Building a Movement to End The New Jim Crow: An Organizing Guide | Daniel Hunter | 1 |
| The New Jim Crow Study Guide and Call to Action | 1 | |
| Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race | Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD | 6 |
| A Shelter in Our Car | Monica Gunning, Illustrations by Elaine Pedlar | 1 |
| America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America | Jim Wallis | 1 |
| Between the World and Me | Ta-Nehisi Coates | 1 |
| Big Hunger: The Unholy Alliance Between Corporate America and Anti-Hunger Groups | Andrew Fisher | 1 |
| Blueprint for Revolution: How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Nonviolent Techniques to Galvanize Communities, Overthrow Dictators, or Simply Change the World | Srdja Popovic | 1 |
| Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement | Angela Y. Davis | 1 |
| Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design | Charles Montgomery | 1 |
| I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness | Austin Channing Brown | 1 |
| Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America | Ibram X. Kendi | 1 |
| Strangers in their own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right | Arlie Russell Hochschild | 1 |
| Tell Them Who I Am: The Lives of Homeless Women | Elliot Liebow | 1 |
| The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit | Thomas J. Sugrue | 1 |
| Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others | Lauren van Dernoot Lipsky with Connie Burk | 1 |
| When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir | Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele | 1 |
| Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race | Reni Eddo-Lodge | 1 |