06/12/2026
What if the housing crisis isn't about building more of what we already have?
We've spent the last two quarters reading Missing Middle Housing by Daniel Parolek and Escape the Housing Trap by Charles Marohn. Both point to the same thing: American neighborhoods lost something — the duplexes, fourplexes, and small courtyard homes that once made communities financially resilient and actually livable.
The more we dig in, the more convinced we are that great neighborhoods aren't built from the top down. They're built from the middle out!
This is what we have been thinking about. More to come.