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Erdmann Housing Tracker

Kevin Erdmann · 28 Sept 2026

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  1. Our reading

    When supply is adequate, building more high-tier homes leads to downward filtering where rents decline in low-tier homes.

    Their wordsBasically, when you build more high tier homes, rents decline in low tier homes.

  2. Our reading

    The Federal Reserve's belief in a housing oversupply in 2008 contributed to the severity of the economic crisis.

    Their wordsThere was a uniform benchmarking to crisis, and the hallucination about housing oversupply was the master key that opened the door for it.

  3. Our reading

    The current housing crisis and the difficulty of achieving Strong Towns' goals are results of the 2008 financial collapse and subsequent policy choices.

    Their wordsThe collapse in finance and development markets that now make Strong Towns' goals hard to achieve wouldn't have happened.

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