Complexities of urban housing markets and the limitations of simplistic solutions
The article “A Composition of Fallacy” is part of a series on incremental growth, focusing on the complexities of urban development and housing issues in rapidly growing cities. The author, Chuck Marohn, expresses his confusion regarding the simplistic narratives and solutions proposed by various experts concerning the housing emergencies in cities like Portland, San Francisco, and Austin. He argues that cities are complex, adaptive systems that cannot be reduced to linear cause-and-effect models, and anyone claiming to have a definitive solution to these issues is either misguided or deceptive.