High-Income Earners Are Renting Instead of Buying Homes

 

High-earning Americans are renting instead of buying homes. Some even say they plan to rent indefinitely. Why is that? In this week’s Upzoned episode, join host Abby Kinney and guest Norm Van Eeden Petersman as they talk about this trend.

ADDITIONAL SHOW NOTES

 
 
You May Also Like
Whatever Works (Doing What You Can To Survive the Housing Crisis)
Johnny Sanphillippo
Whatever Works (Doing What You Can To Survive the Housing Crisis)
Johnny Sanphillippo

Many cities in the United States are experiencing a housing crisis, with pressure growing for someone to find a solution. But is an official solution even possible? With dysfunctional institutions and a divided culture, the “solution” might come down to individuals doing what they can in the moment.

Johnny Sanphillippo
Vernacular Is Beautiful—If We Would Just Allow It
Matthew Robare
Vernacular Is Beautiful—If We Would Just Allow It
Matthew Robare

The work of this small-scale developer shows why cities shouldn’t be so restrictive about building in their own vernacular.

Matthew Robare
Love, Money, or Desperation
Daniel Herriges
Love, Money, or Desperation
Daniel Herriges

Who is actually going to do the work of incremental development, and what will their motivations be?

Daniel Herriges
 
 
Featured
Abby Newsham
Abby Newsham

Abby Newsham is the cohost of the Upzoned podcast. Abby is an urban design and planning consultant at Multistudio in Kansas City, Missouri. In her own community, she works to advance bottom-up strategies that enhance both private development and the public realm, and facilitates the ad-hoc Kansas City chapter of the Incremental Development Alliance. When she’s not geeking out over cities, Abby is an avid urban mountain biker (because: potholes), audiobook and podcast junkie, amateur rock climber, and guitarist. You can connect with Abby on Twitter at @abbykatkc.

Featured
Norm Van Eeden Petersman
Norm Van Eeden Petersman

Norm Van Eeden Petersman is the Director of Membership and Development at Strong Towns. He is a skilled communicator of the Strong Towns message and a community builder. He leads DelPOP, a land use reform and housing advocacy group in Delta, British Columbia, and is a leader of the Strong Towns Toastmasters Club.

Norm has a Master of Divinity and a Bachelor in Political Studies. He spent 10 years pastoring churches in Canada as a preacher, teacher, and leader. He worked in communications for the second-largest city in British Columbia and carried out infrastructure-related stakeholder outreach for Canada's Minister of Health and Federal Economic Development Initiative for Northern Ontario in Ottawa, ON.

Norm has published articles on housing, transportation, faith, and culture and his writing appears regularly on the Strong Towns site. You can connect with him on Twitter at @normvep or on LinkedIn.

 
Podcast, Top StoryStrong Townspodcast, rent, renters, housing, housing cost, housing crisis, Incremental Housing, upzoned