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Daniel is a leader in the communities he is a part of. He serves on Arlington's Energy Committee, which advises the county on how to become more sustainable, and he has completed training through the Leadership Center of Arlington. He is president of his condo board and also serves on the board of directors for his local community choir. Before aging out of the organization, he also served on the board of directors for Arlington Young Democrats. Daniel has volunteered at political fundraising events, written postcards to voters, and knocked on doors across the county to help elect Democrats. Daniel believes public service is one of the highest callings. He cares about this community and wants to serve you as Representative.
Daniel earned his Master of Public Policy from Oregon State University and works as a renewable energy program manager. In this role, he helps renewable energy developers site projects on and near federal lands.
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House prices are up 60% since 2019, and rent prices are up more than 30%. These shocking increases have left roughly one-third of all American households, including half of all renters, housing cost burdened, meaning they spend more than 30 percent of their gross income on rent or mortgage payments. The pandemic exacerbated the problem, but the housing affordability crisis has been growing for decades. People are seeing the American Dream of home ownership evaporate in front of their eyes. We simply have not built enough houses to keep up with demand. Fixing the supply shortage and restoring affordability will require building an additional 2-5 million houses.
It is not just that we have not built enough homes. Incredibly, the productivity of home construction is no better today than it was in the 1950s. By contrast, overall labor productivity has more than tripled in the same timeframe. Home building is stuck in the previous century.
Using modular construction to build housing has the potential to unlock productivity gains that will make homes more affordable. Modular construction involves producing segments of homes in a factory setting and assembling them onsite. Sweden has made major strides in this area, and we should study what they have learned and bring the best parts of it back to this country.
Due to the 10th Amendment, building codes and land use regulations are determined at the state and local level. This has its benefits, but imagine if cars needed to be built differently and built onsite in each state and locality. The federal government does not create building codes, but the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) should develop recommendations for how to standardize codes across jurisdictions to increase building construction productivity.
