Daniel Herriges
Daniel Herriges has been a regular contributor to Strong Towns since 2015 and is a founding member of the Strong Towns movement. He is the co-author of Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis, with Charles Marohn. Daniel now works as the Policy Director at the Parking Reform Network, an organization which seeks to accelerate the reform of harmful parking policies by educating the public about these policies and serving as a connecting hub for advocates and policy makers. Daniel’s work reflects a lifelong fascination with cities and how they work. When he’s not perusing maps (for work or pleasure), he can be found exploring out-of-the-way neighborhoods on foot or bicycle. Daniel has lived in Northern California and Southwest Florida, and he now resides back in his hometown of St. Paul, Minnesota, along with his wife and two children. Daniel has a Masters in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Minnesota.
Housing shortages are housing spillovers.
What does it really mean to say that housing can’t be both affordable and an “investment”?
When it comes to the housing crisis, the simple villain narrative is appealing, but will it help us actually see a way out?
If you’re in the business of trying to change the world around you, sooner or later you’ll need to be a persuasive communicator—but being persuasive isn’t just about getting your facts right.
Rent control is best viewed as a short-term protection against being priced out of one’s own home, not a scalable affordability policy.
Ottawa doesn't have a reckless pedestrian problem. It has a design problem.
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“Is this place somewhere? Or is it nowhere? And what things might we start doing to make it feel like somewhere?”
To understand why the suburban experiment struggles today, we have to look at how it first took hold.
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What a town in Indiana can teach us about bottom-up building.
While other places keep finding ways to say “no” to new housing, this Indiana city is offering pre-approved development templates to small-scale developers at no cost.
“Who is the first, or next, person, business, or entity that is going to come in and make something of this place? What does that wave of succession look like? And are we allowing that action to occur?”