Housing expert urges code changes, local financing and 'incremental developers' to restore starter-home supply
Visiting author Chuck Marone told the Wichita City Council and Sedgwick County Commission that U.S. housing’s shift into a national financial product has starved entry-level housing of capital and urged local code reform, convenings for small developers and targeted financing tools to build starter homes and backyard cottages.
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Chuck Marone, author of Escaping the Housing Trap, told a joint Wichita–Sedgwick County en banc that U.S. housing has been reshaped from a locally financed good into a nationally traded financial product — a shift that, he said, has left a capital gap at the entry level of the market.
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