Charles L. Marohn, Jr., Strong Towns
Schedule
Thu Sep 18 2025 at 12:00 pm to 01:30 pm
UTC-04:00Location
135 S. Broadway, Akron, OH, United States, Ohio 44223 | Akron, OH
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Charles L. Marohn, Jr.Founder and President, Strong Towns
NOON • THURSDAY • SEPTEMBER 18, 2025
At the Quaker Station
Presentation Title: Escaping the Housing Trap
About our Speaker: Charles Marohn, known as “Chuck” to friends and colleagues, is the founder and president of Strong Towns. He is a civil engineer and a land use planner with decades of experience. Heholds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering and a Master of Urban and Regional Planning, both from the University of Minnesota.
Marohn is the author of Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (Wiley, 2019), and of Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town (Wiley, 2021). He hosts the Strong Towns Podcast and is a primary writer for Strong Towns’web content. He has presented Strong Towns concepts in hundreds of cities and towns acrossNorth America. Planetizen named him one of the 10 Most Influential Urbanists of all time.
About the Program: Housing 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.
In addition to the speakers’ remarks, the event will include time for networking, luncheon, and Q&A. The cost to attend is $30. Go to the link in bio or akronroundtable.org to learn more and make a reservation.
Buy the Book: Chuck Marohn will sign his books immediately following the luncheon. Books may be purchased in advance from The Learned Owl Book Shop by using the following link: www.learnedowl.com/search/site/charles%20marohn
Books purchased in advance will be discounted at the time the order is processed. Please indicate that you are purchasing it for the Akron Roundtable luncheon and the book will be available for pick up at the event. Books will also be available for purchase on the day of the luncheon.
The Luncheon Sponsor is Summit County Land Bank.
The Celebrate Akron! Sponsors are Billow's Celebrations, Cremations & Funerals and Huntington.
The Title Sponsor is State & Federal Communications.
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