Explore the past, present, and future of housing in America, as well as solutions to its most pressing problems
In Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Solution to the Housing Crisis, renowned urbanists Charles L. Marohn Jr. and Daniel Herriges deliver an insightful and engaging discussion of the -wicked problem- of housing in the context of planning and public policy. The book identifies the tension that exists between the concepts of -housing as a financial product- and -housing as shelter- in American society.
The authors convincingly argue that the root of our nation-s housing woes is that the economy is designed to produce short-term growth at the expense of lasting wealth, and that a key piece of the answer to this problem must be incremental development at the local scale and neighborhood level.
Readers will also find:
- Discussions of housing as an investment and how the country-s neighborhoods are being transformed by the introduction of l
