num_pages: 242
description: A Plague on Your Houses is a scorching indictment of the decision to close fire companies in New York in the 1970s and a frightening study of the way misguided and malevolent social policy can spark a chain reaction of enormous and unforeseen urban collapse.
language: English
title: A Plague on Your Houses: How New York Was Burned Down and National Public Health Crumbled
titlecomplete: A Plague on Your Houses: How New York Was Burned Down and National Public Health Crumbled (Haymarket Series)
genres: New York, History, Nonfiction, Urban Studies
ratings_count: 38
publisher: Verso Books