J.C. Shepard’s Reviews > Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis > Status Update
J.C. Shepard
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“Strong Towns as a movement has never been about picking a solution; it’s always been an approach. People need to be able to try things, to respond to stress or opportunities as it presents to them. These responses need to be incremental, a discipline that expresses humility, allowing us to be wrong in a way that helps, not hurts.
To escape the housing trap, cities need to replace rigid systems with flexible ones
— May 12, 2024 09:12AM
To escape the housing trap, cities need to replace rigid systems with flexible ones
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J.C. Shepard
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"A new paradigm for housing will incrementally thicken up existing neighborhoods...
At Strong Towns, we've developed a simple, four-step process for identifying this kind of opportunity and making it happen:
1. Humbly observe: where people in the community struggle.
2. Ask the question: What is the next smallest thing we can do right now to address that struggle?
3. Do that thing. Do it right now.
4. Repeat.
— May 12, 2024 12:07PM
At Strong Towns, we've developed a simple, four-step process for identifying this kind of opportunity and making it happen:
1. Humbly observe: where people in the community struggle.
2. Ask the question: What is the next smallest thing we can do right now to address that struggle?
3. Do that thing. Do it right now.
4. Repeat.
J.C. Shepard
is on page 157 of 240
"The next increment of development intensity needs to be allowed everywhere by right."
— May 12, 2024 12:04PM
J.C. Shepard
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"The way out of the housing trap must...
* Rapidly add new housing units at affordable prices;
* Not adversely impact the existing housing market;
* Allow for the flow of capital into the community, but slow the flow of capital out of the community; and
* Grow the city's tax base without adding to the liabilities of local governments.
There is no approach currently on-offer that allows these things to happen.
— May 12, 2024 12:02PM
* Rapidly add new housing units at affordable prices;
* Not adversely impact the existing housing market;
* Allow for the flow of capital into the community, but slow the flow of capital out of the community; and
* Grow the city's tax base without adding to the liabilities of local governments.
There is no approach currently on-offer that allows these things to happen.
J.C. Shepard
is on page 153 of 240
“At Strong Towns, we push back on the concept of a “solution”. There is no solution to the housing trap we find ourselves in. There aren’t one or two things we can do that will make housing abundant, affordable, and a solid and stable investment…
— May 12, 2024 09:09AM
J.C. Shepard
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“Thee has not been a free market in housing in a very long time. Given the state’s role in shaping the market for raw land through the provision of public infrastructure such as roads, bridges ne could argue there never has been.”
— May 12, 2024 08:53AM
J.C. Shepard
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“Constant evolution was a defining characteristic of pre-suburban American cities. New neighborhoods were emerging at the urban fringe, but at the same time existing neighborhoods were undergoing steady change.
Today, there is no such steady change, only a binary choice between stasis or radically transformative change.”
— May 05, 2024 08:53AM
Today, there is no such steady change, only a binary choice between stasis or radically transformative change.”
