Published on January 12, 2023 The reason there is a re
Building from the Ground Up: Reclaiming the American Housing Boom, by Kevin Erdmann (Post Hill Press, 272 pp., $18) What if the standard narrative of the Great Recession—in which a nationwide housing bubble, fueled by easy credit, newfangled financial shenanigans, a silly assumption that home prices could never decline, and excessive homebuilding tanked the entire…