Join us and Livable Harrisonburg at Pale Fire Brewing for an event with Strong Towns Founder Chuck MarohHousing is an investment. Investment prices must go up. Housing is shelter. When the price of shelter goes up, people experience distress.

This is the housing trap. It’s time to escape. This presentation introduces a first-of-its-kind discussion of the tension between housing as a financial product and housing as shelter. These insights will help local communities fight back against the current affordability housing crisis, and opt out of the boom and bust cycles that have typified housing in postwar America.

This presentation offers a serious, yet accessible, history of housing policy in the United States and explains how it led us to this point in time: where we face a market that is rigged against people who, only a few decades ago, could have been homeowners or stable, long-term renters. Only local change, on a neighborhood or city-wide scale, can begin to restore balance to the housing market.

After this one-hour presentation, you’ll walk away understanding:
– How the tension between housing as an investment and housing as shelter impacts where and how we live.
– How financial innovations in the Great Depression stabilized the housing market, and how those tools were repurposed after World War II to rapidly expand America’s cities.
– How a series of housing price bubbles and banking crises have financialized the housing market, transforming homeowners from the customer purchasing a home to the product supporting a mortgage.
– How regulations designed to facilitate the rapid growth of cities end up stagnating neighborhoods and creating artificial housing shortages.
– Why making it easier for more people to borrow more money is not a solution to housing affordability and, in fact, has only made housing less broadly attainable.
– The huge difference between a goal of making affordable housing and a goal of making housing affordable.
Where cities can effectively intervene to make their housing market more locally responsive, broadly increasing affordability without participating in the boom and bust cycle of the broader housing market.

Time

April 30, 2024 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm(GMT-04:00)

Location

Pale Fire Brewing Co.

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04may8:00 am6:00 pmPerfect Day 50K by VA Momentum

Event Details

This is not a SVBCoalition event – it will be hosted at the Western Slope, with proceeds benefiting the organization.

Register Here: https://vamomentum.com/perfect-day-50k/

Date: May 4, 2024 at 8:00am
Location: Massanutten Western Slope, Keezletown, VA
Preregistration Prices:

Until February 14: $99/person
February 15-May 3: $109/person

Important Information:

Limited to 200 participants

How It Works:

8am-6pm: Run a 5K on the hour every hour for 10 hours. Individual and team options!
The Course: a 5K trail loop with a shared start/finish line. Participants must be ready at the start line at the top of every hour.
Individuals: Can you complete all ten loops?! Run all 50K for the most bragging rights of the day. Awards are based on cumulative time.
Teams: Are you endurance race curious? Or trail running curious? Both? This is a welcoming event for YOU!
Teams of 2: may either alternate 5K’s or have one person do five hours in a row then the other person do the next five hours in a row. Each teammate must complete five loops.
Teams of 3: you decide how to divide up loops. Each teammate must complete at least three loops.
Timing: All loops are chip timed. Results will be based on total cumulative time.
Time cutoff: participants must be able to finish each 5K loop in under 57 minutes. Anyone who does not meet the time cut off each hour will not be permitted to continue.
Basecamp: The Perfect Day 50K hangout spot & party zone! Participants will park their vehicles in the grassy area next to the start/finish line for refueling between loops. You’re welcome to bring tents, coolers, camping grills, and pets must be on a leash. We’ll have music playing and spectators are encouraged to bring their energy to Basecamp to support runners. Spectators will be asked to park in the main Western Slopes gravel parking lot adjacent to the start/finish line.
Black Sheep Coffee will have FREE coffee for participants all day long.
Swag: Every participant receives a premium moisture wicking race shirt, custom finisher medal and stocked drinks & snacks at Basecamp.
Charity Partner: A portion of each registration goes to Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Coalition. SVBC volunteers are responsible for the building and maintenance of the trail system at Massanutten Western Slopes and we couldn’t do this without them.