Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; Part I The National Context for the Goodman Building; Chapter 1 The Housing Crisis in America and the Policies That Created and Promoted It; Housing Policy and Financialization; Introduction; A Space Problem Not a Housing Problem; Methods and Procedure; Types of Homes and the Problem of Housing Policy; The Character of "Homed," "Unhomed" and Homelessness; "Voluntary" and Economic Homelessness; Conclusions; An End Point and Beginning; A Note on the Ethnographic Methods Used, and Disclaimer; References

Part II Setting the Scene of the Goodman BuildingChapter 2 Preface to the Goodman Building Ethnography; Theoretical Considerations; References; Chapter 3 The Background and Setting; References; Chapter 4 Redevelopment in the Western Addition; References; Part III The Goodman Building in Transition: From Single Room Occupancy for Temporary Workers to Artist Hotel to Community Action; Chapter 5 Resistance, WAPAC: J-Town Collective, Nihonmachi Little Friends-The Goodman Group and Coalitions with Architectural Preservationists; Nihonmachi, J-Town and Little Friends; References

Chapter 6 A Broader Field: South of Market, Migrants, BART and TOORReferences; Chapter 7 Beat Rebels with a Cause, Hippies and Community; The Food Conspiracy; Childcare; Rent Strikes, Occupations and Live/Work Spaces; References; Chapter 8 The Monday Night Meeting; Some Profiles on "Actors"; References; Chapter 9 Living in an Art Community; Part IV Communities of Change and Occupation; Chapter 10 Learning from Others and Spreading the Word; Encountering the Goodman Building; The Community Congress of San Francisco; Historic Preservation Movement; References; Chapter 11 Democracy at Home

Appendix 1: Nomination form for the National Register of Historic PlacesAppendix 2: Letter from Merv Goodman Regarding the Landmark Designation for the Goodman Building; Appendix 3: State of California Exemption Application; Appendix 4: Members and Tenants of the Goodman Building; Goodman Group; Tenants' Union (Original Tenants at SFRDA Seizure); Appendix 5: 1979 Tax Return for the Goodman Group; Appendix 6: Goodman Building Timeline; Goodman Chronology; Appendix 7: Copy of Monday Night Meeting (MNM) Agenda and Notes; Appendix 8: SFRDA Letter Rejecting Mural Project