The Quiet War Over Parking Minimums
The cheapest housing reform nobody campaigns on.
Required parking ratios are a hidden tax on housing — land and capital spent on cars instead of people. Eliminating them is among the highest-leverage reforms available, and it costs the public nothing.
Less Concrete, More Homes
Founder & CEO of Sightline Data. Former head of data science at a top-5 multifamily REIT.
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