Escaping the Housing Trap Book Discussion
Join the Shelburne Housing Committee for a discussion of Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis By Daniel Herriges and Charles Marohn Jr. facilitated by Pierson Library Director Michael Hibben.
Contact Nikki Stevens for more info! nikki.stevens@gmail.com
Escaping the Housing Trap is available at the Pierson Library and on Spotify and Audible.
About the book:
Escaping the Housing Trap explores 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 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.
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