02639cam a22004098i 4500 23579923 n 20250929101527.0 240222s2024 nju 001 0 eng c 2024006967 9781119984528 (hardback) 9781394198313 (adobe pdf) 9781394198306 (epub) 23579923 WaSeSS/DLC eng rda DLC pcc n-us--- HD7293 .M323 2024 333.3380973 M323 2024 23/eng/20240316 Marohn, Charles L., Jr., author. Escaping the housing trap : the strong towns response to the housing crisis / Charles Marohn, Daniel Herriges. 2405 Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, [2024] 240 pages, 23 cm. text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes index. "Housing prices are at record highs, and millions of Americans are housing insecure in one form or another. Our housing markets are failing to provide the foundation for all Americans to have a dignified life they can afford in a good place with access to opportunity. Housing is a classic example of a "wicked problem" in planning and public policy: one involving a complex system with many interrelated parts, which does not yield to simple prescriptive fixes nor to pat ideological explanations. This is why, although nearly everyone agrees that we have a "housing crisis" today, there is no broad consensus on the nature and causes of that crisis, let alone what should be done about it. Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Solution to the Housing Crisis will identify the tension between the "housing as a financial product" approach that dominates housing markets and the "housing as shelter" constraint that all of us as humans share. In the former, fiscal and monetary policy works to push the price up, combining with many local factors that also accelerate housing prices upward. Yet, to meet the shelter needs of Americans, prices need to come down, or at least be aligned with what people can broadly afford."-- Provided by publisher. Housing United States. Housing Prices United States. Herriges, Daniel, author. Online version: Marohn, Charles L., Jr. Escaping the housing trap Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, [2024] 9781394198313 (DLC) 2024006968 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BK-EN 0 7937 7937 0 0 ddc 0 0 CENTRAL CENTRAL 2025-10-01 0 333.3380973 M323 2024 1000000020310 2025-10-01 10:35:18 2025-10-01 BK-EN