E-Books →Escaping the Housing Trap The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis

This is the housing trap. It's time to escape. In Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Solution to the Housing Crisis, renowned urbanists Charles (Chuck) Marohn and Daniel Herriges introduce a first-of-its-kind discussion of the tension between housing as a financial product and housing as shelter. This is the key insight that's been missing from the Housing Crisis Conversation; and the insight that can help cities fight back against the crisis from the bottom-up.
This book offers a serious, yet accessible, history of housing policy in the United States and explains how it led us to this point in time: where we face a market that is rigged against people who, only a few decades ago, could have been homeowners or stable, long-term rentals.
Only local change, on a neighborhood or city-wide scale, can begin to restore balance to the housing market.
Escaping the Housing Trap is the must-read resource for everyone with a stake in the future of housing in America-and that means everyone.
Readers will find:
* Discussions of housing as an investment and how the country's neighborhoods are being transformed by the introduction of large amounts of investment
* Explorations of housing as shelter, including discussions of zoning policy and NIMBYism
* A comprehensive overview of the Strong Towns approach to solving the American housing crisis