High Desert, Higher Costs: Bend and the Housing Crisis in the American West

by Jonathan Bach

Nestled against the Cascade Mountains, former lumber town Bend, Oregon, entices residents who long to live in a wonderland of sagebrush and forests. But like so many other communities across the West, Bend has too few homes for everyone clambering for access. In High Desert, Higher Costs, Jonathan Bach takes a closer look at the housing crisis in this mid-sized city that is both the population center for rural Central Oregon and a major...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1962645282
• ISBN13: 9781962645287
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Oregon State University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.