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The Housing Trap - A Book Tour

Home Posted on August 21, 2024

Housing Trap Book Tour with image of the Author


Understand the root causes of America's interrelated housing crisis and the intentional responses your city can make to address it.

Housing is an investment. Investment prices must go up. Housing is shelter. When the price of shelter goes up, people experience distress.
This is the housing trap. It’s time to escape. This presentation introduces a first-of-its-kind discussion of the tension between housing as a financial product and housing as shelter. These insights will help local communities fight back against the current affordability housing crisis and opt out of the boom and bust cycles that have typified housing in postwar America.
This presentation 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 renters. Only local change, on a neighborhood or city-wide scale, can begin to restore balance to the housing market.


Event Details:

Wednesday, September 18th at 6:00pm
Amesbury High School, 5 Highland Street

• Event includes summary of local housing and economic trends
• Book signing with local bookstore
• Free and open to the public


Made possible by partnerships with the City of Amesbury, Jabberwocky Books, Strong Towns, Merrimack Valley Planning Commission, and the City of Newburyport.


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