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<p><b>Housing is an investment. Investment prices must go up. Housing is shelter. When the price of shelter goes up, people experience distress.<br /><br /></b>This is the housing trap. It’s time to escape. In <i>Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Solution to the Housing Crisis</i>, 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.<br /><br />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.</p> <p>Only local change, on a neighborhood or city-wide scale, can begin to restore balance to the housing market.</p> <p><i>Escaping the Housing Trap</i> is the must-read resource for everyone with a stake in the future of housing in America—and that means everyone. Readers will find:</p> <ul> <li>Discussions of housing as an investment and how the country's neighborhoods are being transformed by the introduction of large amounts of investment</li> <li>Explorations of housing as shelter, including discussions of zoning policy and NIMBYism</li> <li>A comprehensive overview of the Strong Towns approach to solving the American housing crisis</li> </ul> <p> </p>