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Escaping the Housing Trap

The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis

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Escaping the Housing Trap

By: Charles L. Marohn Jr., Daniel Herriges
Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
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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.

Escaping the Housing Trap is the must-have resource for everyone with a stake in the future of housing in America-and that means everyone. Listeners 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; and a comprehensive overview of the Strong Towns approach to solving the American housing crisis.

©2024 Charles Marohn and Daniel Herriges (P)2024 Ascent Audio Politics & Government Public Policy Real Estate Social Sociology
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Had reasonable solutions for all the looming issues that plague housing affordability & development, the cogs in the system harm everyone including the children of those who have benefited from the housing boom

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If it is new to you, the information contained within will make angry — a history of arrogance, manipulation, abuse, and racism spanning all levels of relevance and moving through time from the 1920s to the 2020s. And even still, Strong Towns has a plan to correct these mistakes and bring hope back to American cities. A plan we can implement. Together.

outrageous enough to make your blood boil; inspiring enough to calm you back down

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I love the way this book avoids easy solutions yet still manages to be inspiring.

Practical Wisdom

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Thought provoking and insightful. If you are interested in making the place you live, work, and play in better for everyone, this book is for you.

A Must Listen for Housing

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Excellent wholistic approach to understanding the current housing morass, how we got here, and what we can do about it. The historical sections and latter chapters on financial innovations to support incremental development are especially well organized, well written, and comprehensible to anyone. I’ve listened to all three Strong Towns books. You can start with any of them but this one has been my favorite. Excellent reader as well.

Excellent and intelligent description of housing crisis and what needs to change.

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I feel inspired to get involved and make changes in my own community. I know more than when I started and I feel empowered to do what I can.

Clear telling of how we got here, and ways to move forward

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I would recommend this to anyone. It has given me lots of hope for the future! I want to become an incremental developer in my community and be a part of the solution.

A timely book about being a part of local change for the better

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This book essential reading for anyone interested in addressing the housing crisis in America. Gets to the bottom of how we got here and what we can do to dig ourselves out.

I'd recommend to anyone

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