the book follows the stories of martha garrett county grandmother in detroit who worked with her community to stop her eviction. michael hyatt genes in chattanooga, tennessee and other resident of the public housing complex and stop the city from tearing it down. great spindly and stanford, north carolina who fought legally and aggressively what he called the 10 year crime spree in which he dealt with every single major wall street bank and i must every single one of the criminal servicers. and martha biggs in chicago, mother of chermayeff who lived with her family and young children of a homeless single mother for almost a decade of chicago until she worked with the chicago anti-eviction campaign to find someplace, a safe place to live. i want to make it clear from the outset i'm not a financial reporter and what's not for closure crisis i will speak about how we choose to organize society and how that could potentially be different. will travel from the inside out rincon homes in chicago deliberated blocks in nature shirt to the maintenance across the country. and now let us begin with a