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Daniel Herriges

Daniel Herriges

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Urban planner, co-author with Charles Marohn of Escaping the Housing Trap, and policy director at the Parking Reform Network. Wrote for Strong Towns from 2015, mostly about how housing markets actually set prices.

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3 of Daniel Herriges's claims fit 2 mental models. Most often: Second-order thinking, Bottlenecks.

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Second-order thinking

Ask "and then what?": follow a decision past its first effect to the ones that come after.

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Building a lot of housing in an expensive city will not lower rents there; it lowers them in the cheaper places that were absorbing its spillover demand.

  1. Daniel Herriges Urban planner, co-author with Charles Marohn of Escaping… In fact — and this is a point that is, in my opinion, underappreciated by the pro-housing side — building a bunch of housing in Santa Monica would probably not lower rents in Santa Monica. It would bring more people to Santa Monica, creating lower rents elsewhere in Greater Los Angeles as the spillovers from Santa Monica lessened. Shortages and Spillovers: How People Misunderstand the Housing Crisisstrongtowns.org · 29 May 2024All korrents from this piece
    Their wordsIn fact — and this is a point that is, in my opinion, underappreciated by the pro-housing side — building a bunch of housing in Santa Monica would probably not lower rents in Santa Monica. It would bring more people to Santa Monica, creating lower rents elsewhere in Greater Los Angeles as the spillovers from Santa Monica lessened.

    ↗Shortages and Spillovers: How People Misunderstand the Housing Crisisstrongtowns.org

    29 May 2024

Housing demand that a neighbourhood is not allowed to absorb does not disappear; it floods somewhere else, and that is what a housing shortage actually is.

  1. Daniel Herriges Urban planner, co-author with Charles Marohn of Escaping… So, when housing demand can’t be met in a given place, it doesn’t evaporate. It spills over. It goes somewhere. Shortages and Spillovers: How People Misunderstand the Housing Crisisstrongtowns.org · 29 May 2024All korrents from this piece
    Their wordsSo, when housing demand can’t be met in a given place, it doesn’t evaporate. It spills over. It goes somewhere.

    ↗Shortages and Spillovers: How People Misunderstand the Housing Crisisstrongtowns.org

    29 May 2024

Bottlenecks

A system moves only as fast as its narrowest point; speed up anything else and nothing changes.

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The single biggest barrier in the housing market is that most neighbourhoods are legally forbidden to add any housing at all.

  1. Daniel Herriges Urban planner, co-author with Charles Marohn of Escaping… The biggest barrier of all, of course, is that the majority of neighborhoods are not allowed to add any housing at all. Shortages and Spillovers: How People Misunderstand the Housing Crisisstrongtowns.org · 29 May 2024All korrents from this piece
    Their wordsThe biggest barrier of all, of course, is that the majority of neighborhoods are not allowed to add any housing at all.

    ↗Shortages and Spillovers: How People Misunderstand the Housing Crisisstrongtowns.org

    29 May 2024