Latest blog post is out. The climax of this particular story. “Giffon explains, "I use the word Fall because it's capitulation. It's actually not really related to how hard the thing is. You can maybe go through an extreme hardship and not be beaten down. But I literally think

Incredible! What I would do to sit here on a Sunday afternoon with my family. It’s so…beautiful & human. And illegal on who knows how many fronts in America. When it comes to the built environment, America has become the land of authoritarian bureaucracy & forced inhumanity.

Well said: “leave everything to the code = leave nothing to humanity”

Just wow.

"We study the local effects of new market-rate housing in low-income areas...new buildings decrease rents in nearby units by about 6% relative to units slightly farther away or near sites developed later..." direct.mit.edu/rest/article-a…

Experientially I know this to be true. We don’t do it enough, and I’d like to do more of it! Cool to see it reflected in the research.

Agree with this. Don’t need to use force all the time. Just get rid of the subsidized incentives.

A trip to Spain back in 2011 before starting as an accountant at KPMG was, in many ways, the first spark of Building Culture. I'd grow up in the suburbs of Houston being taught America is at the pinnacle of all human civilization. When I saw all this, I knew I was wrong.

I don’t know why, but would love to build one for someone.