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""The horizon of the American West has always promised a landscape so vast that it could never be contained. But today this same topography is lined by invisible fences of exclusivity. In High Desert, Higher Costs, Jonathan Bach investigates how the infusion of affluence and a widening wealth gap has transformed Bend, Oregon, where many people who built this community--and still keep it running--can no longer afford to live there. With expertise and sensitivity, Bach unspools a story that is at once intensely personal and as sweeping as the Oregon sky--stark, unforgettable, and yet relentlessly hopeful."" --Brent Walth, author of Fire at Eden's Gate: Tom McCall and the Oregon Story ""Set against the backdrop of the housing crisis in Bend, Oregon, Jonathan Bach's book invites us into the lives of everyday people to understand what it takes to find, keep, and afford a place to call home. Meticulously detailed, High Desert, Higher Costs offers an account of the Byzantine layers of local, state, and federal policies that have led us to this crisis and examines which ones might move us out of it. Moving from discussions of urban-growth boundaries and short-term rentals to lending programs and YIMBY density proposals, this should be required reading for anyone trying to understand the many nuances of the housing crisis, how we got here, and what steps we can take to imagine a different future of housing in our communities."" --Ryanne Pilgeram, author of Pushed Out: Contested Development and Rural Gentrification in the US West

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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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