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Parking Is Ruining Our Cities. Here’s Why | Henry Grabar
Why is housing so expensive? Parking might be part of the answer.
In this episode of DemograFix, Cara Stern talks to Henry Grabar, author of Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World, about how parking minimums, parking costs and car dependency have shaped our cities and made housing more expensive.
We discuss why developers build so much parking, how parking requirements can delay or block new housing, what happens when cities eliminate parking minimums, and whether making parking harder is actually a good way to get people out of their cars.
Plus: why are there at least three parking…
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