Mayors, Affordable Cities, and Bad Billionaire Pushback focuses on the frontline where affordability is either won or lost: cities and towns where people live, work, and struggle. In an era when wealthy developers, corporate landlords, and billionaire donors shape local agendas behind closed doors, this book challenges mayors, city workers, and residents to put affordability at the center of local governance. This book details how individuals, neighborhood groups, city departments, and coalitions can work together with courageous mayors to secure housing, healthcare, food access, transportation, and child care at the local level. It offers strategies for building cross‑sector city teams, rewriting local policy, and pushing back against billionaire influence at city hall—whether in a small rural town or a sprawling metro area. Part practical playbook, part rallying cry, Mayors, Affordable Cities, and Bad Billionaire Pushback insists that cities can become engines of affordability even when the federal government is weaponized against the public. Between the pages, readers will find blueprints for a platform that guarantees that every person in their city will have access to affordable essentials. Readers are empowered to imagine a brighter future and answer the question: In the movement for affordability, democracy, and justice, what will you do? About the Collection In a world of more than 44 million books, the 5 Essentials Platform Book Collection stands alone in guiding American readers through an era of federal disruption and billionaire‑backed resistance to affordability. If you are asking, “How do we fix a broken society?”, these seven books offer a step‑by‑step answer—showing how to rebuild affordability, democracy, and justice one city at a time. About the Author Dr. Dominic Cappello grew up in working‑class Costa Mesa, witnessing firsthand how affordability has been absent from public discourse and from politicians’ lips for more than seven decades. His field work and doctoral research focus on how to make the essentials of a good life—affordable housing, healthcare, healthy food, transportation, and child care—truly accessible to everyone, even as billionaires work to turn these needs into profit streams and sabotage every attempt to make them affordable. In a society where the federal government is increasingly weaponized against working people and a shrinking middle class faces eroding job security as AI replaces once stable careers, Dr. Cappello’s 5 Essentials Platform seven-book collection is an urgent call to action. Forceful, practical, and unapologetic, his work insists that democracy and justice now hang in the balance—and that only a bold, organized affordability movement, starting locally in each city, can change the trajectory of a country that has lost its way.