Part I: The Problem 1. Introduction 2. What is a Home? What is a Housing Crisis? 3. Housing is Not a Simple Supply and Demand Problem! Part II: How We Got Here 4. The Politics of Housing Policy: Getting Government Out of the Way 5. Building the Housing Asset Economy 6. News Media and the Enrolment of Publics into the Asset Economy Part III: Why We Are Still Here 7. Housing and the Maintenance of Elite Wealth and Inequality 8. Lobbying for the Housing Policy Status Quo Part IV: What to do About Property, Power and Poverty 9. Conclusion