High Desert, Higher Costs: Bend and the Housing Crisis in the American West - Couverture souple

Bach, Jonathan

 
9781962645287: High Desert, Higher Costs: Bend and the Housing Crisis in the American West
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1962645282 ISBN 13 : 9781962645287
Editeur : Oregon State University, 2025

Synopsis

Nestled against the Cascade Mountains, former lumber town Bend, Oregon, entices residents who long to live in a wonderland of sagebrush and forests. But like so many other communities across the West, Bend has too few homes for everyone clambering for access. In High Desert, Higher Costs, Jonathan Bach takes a closer look at the housing crisis in this mid-sized city that is both the population center for rural Central Oregon and a major recreation area. Bach uses Bend as a lens into the growing housing crisis in the region, where residents and tourists alike prize access to outdoor recreation, and housing issues have been brewing for decades.

Like other cities in Montana, Idaho, and Colorado, Bend serves as a gateway to popular natural areas while also suffering from a limited amount of new housing, increasing populations, amenity migrants in the age of remote work, depressed or stagnating wages, and a widening gulf between homeowners and renters. High Desert, Higher Costs introduces us to regular people—from the former political candidate evicted during COVID-19 to the nonprofit worker hoping to build apartments for the houseless—who struggle to call Bend home. Bach explores the causes of these issues and the political, legal, economic, and cultural factors influencing them, and also offers potential solutions for current and future residents to build their lives now, and in the years to come, in Bend and throughout the American West.

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À propos de l?auteur

Jonathan Bach covers housing and commercial real estate for the Oregonian. He previously wrote for the Portland Business Journal, where his reporting on home-lending disparities received an honorable mention from the nonprofit Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing. Jonathan lives with his wife, Makenna, near Portland, Oregon.

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Éditeur
Oregon State University
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1962645282
ISBN 13 
9781962645287
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
200
Coordonnées du fabricant
Oregon State University Press
https://osupress.oregonstate.edu/

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