For THP’s next Book Club we’re reading Escaping the Housing Trap by Charles L Marohn, Jr. and Daniel Herriges! This book promises to combine a history of housing policy with concrete, actionable steps that local municipalities can take to address housing affordability!

From the authors:

“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 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.

Only local change, on a neighborhood or city-wide scale, can begin to restore balance to the housing market.”

RSVP to Alexandra- alexandra@taoshousingpartnership.org.