Housing is an investment. And investment prices must go up. Housing is shelter. When the price of shelter goes up, people experience distress. Housing can’t be both a good investment and broadly affordable—yet we insist on both. This is the housing trap.

https://www.housingtrap.org/

This standalone video can also be used as a companion to our new book, "Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis"


00:00 Introduction
01:16 1. Shelter or Investment?
03:22 2. Building the Trap
05:01 3. Setting the Trap
06:19 4. Trapped
07:38 5. Zoning Lockdown
09:56 6. Not in My Backyard
10:57 7. Yes in My Backyard
12:12 8. Affordable with a Capital "A"
13:20 9. Systems or Solutions?
15:22 10. Unleash the Swarm
16:22 11. Financing a Housing Revolution
18:18 12. Building a Strong Town