……在过去 60 年里，对建筑的限制（导致建造成本更高甚至无法建造）推高了买房成本。任何认真考虑买房的人都应该读读 Patrick Killelea 写的《The Housing Trap》，它篇幅不长，却极其精彩地梳理了我们是如何陷入当下的局面的，同时也是一份关于何时该买房还是租房的实用指南。https://www.amazon.com/dp/1479156213/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_awdb_Ki...
…restrictions on building (making it more expensive or impossible to build) have increased the cost of home ownership over the past 60 years. Anyone who's seriously considering purchasing a home should read The Housing Trap by Patrick Killelea, it's a short, amazing overview of how we arrived in the situation we're in as well as a practical guide for when to buy vs rent housing. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1479156213/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_awdb_Ki...
…really good understanding of why housing is so much more expensive today (as a percentage of avg annual income) than it was 50-60 years ago. For that I recommend a short, but extremely useful book, The Housing Trap: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-cal...
……正如其他人指出的那样，那里的一些 FAQ 对传统观念提供了很有价值的反驳。另外看起来 Patrick 现在在 Amazon.com 上出了一本书可以买到：http://www.amazon.com/Housing-Trap-Buyers-Captured-Yourself/... 换个角度说，就算那里的建议有 0.9 的概率是错的，对大多数人来说，买房仍然是一生中最重要的一笔大宗消费。……
…someone else pointed out, there are some FAQs there that provide a useful counter to the conventional wisdom. Also it looks like Patrick now has a book out you can buy on Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Housing-Trap-Buyers-Captured-Yourself/... Put another way, even if there's an 0.9 probability that the advice there is wrong, buying a house is nevertheless the most significant purchase of your life for most people.…
这全都是基于他们去年出版的一本篇幅较长且相对偏技术的书：《Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Town Response to the Housing Crisis》。https://www.housingtrap.org/
This is all based on a long and relatively technical book they published last year: Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Town Response to the Housing Crisis. https://www.housingtrap.org/
…(expectation of future) profit, so less housing will be built. Right? Yes, article is too wordy and lacks focus. Typical for us progressives. OC prescribes "bottom-up" something something. I haven't read Housing Trap, so can't comment. My prescription would be for policy makers to work with investors & developers, figure out how to make profits more stable and predictable, figure out how to institute those reforms.…
……在过去 60 年里，对建筑的限制（导致建造成本更高甚至无法建造）推高了买房成本。任何认真考虑买房的人都应该读读 Patrick Killelea 写的《The Housing Trap》，它篇幅不长，却极其精彩地梳理了我们是如何陷入当下的局面的，同时也是一份关于何时该买房还是租房的实用指南。https://www.amazon.com/dp/1479156213/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_awdb_Ki...
…restrictions on building (making it more expensive or impossible to build) have increased the cost of home ownership over the past 60 years. Anyone who's seriously considering purchasing a home should read The Housing Trap by Patrick Killelea, it's a short, amazing overview of how we arrived in the situation we're in as well as a practical guide for when to buy vs rent housing. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1479156213/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_awdb_Ki...
……真正搞清楚为什么今天的房价（占年均收入的比例）比五六十年前贵了这么多。为此我推荐一本篇幅虽短却极其有用的书《The Housing Trap》：https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-cal...
…really good understanding of why housing is so much more expensive today (as a percentage of avg annual income) than it was 50-60 years ago. For that I recommend a short, but extremely useful book, The Housing Trap: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-cal...
……正如其他人指出的那样，那里的一些 FAQ 对传统观念提供了很有价值的反驳。另外看起来 Patrick 现在在 Amazon.com 上出了一本书可以买到：http://www.amazon.com/Housing-Trap-Buyers-Captured-Yourself/... 换个角度说，就算那里的建议有 0.9 的概率是错的，对大多数人来说，买房仍然是一生中最重要的一笔大宗消费。……
…someone else pointed out, there are some FAQs there that provide a useful counter to the conventional wisdom. Also it looks like Patrick now has a book out you can buy on Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Housing-Trap-Buyers-Captured-Yourself/... Put another way, even if there's an 0.9 probability that the advice there is wrong, buying a house is nevertheless the most significant purchase of your life for most people.…
这全都是基于他们去年出版的一本篇幅较长且相对偏技术的书：《Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Town Response to the Housing Crisis》。https://www.housingtrap.org/
This is all based on a long and relatively technical book they published last year: Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Town Response to the Housing Crisis. https://www.housingtrap.org/
……（对未来的）利润预期，因此盖的房子就会变少。对吧？没错，文章太啰嗦了而且没有重点。我们进步派的通病了。原作者主张什么“自下而上”之类的玩意儿。我还没读过《Housing Trap》，所以不予置评。我的药方是政策制定者与投资者及开发商合作，摸索如何让利润更稳定、更具可预测性，并想办法推行这些改革。……
…(expectation of future) profit, so less housing will be built. Right? Yes, article is too wordy and lacks focus. Typical for us progressives. OC prescribes "bottom-up" something something. I haven't read Housing Trap, so can't comment. My prescription would be for policy makers to work with investors & developers, figure out how to make profits more stable and predictable, figure out how to institute those reforms.…