The Digital Entrepreneur’s Future Impact on the Housing Cycle

Any opinions expressed in this paper are those of the author(s) and not those of the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University or of any of the persons or organizations providing support to the Joint Center for Housing Studies. [...] In the business world, entrepreneurs are the heroes of the economy. [...] 1 Are the new startups or entrepreneurs at fault that the whole market and historical interventions in the market give us a suboptimal outcome when it comes to making housing more affordable? From other presentations, I learned how the single-family rental (SFR) model, which I feel exemplifies the best of digitalization’s effects, can have a negative impact in local communities and create fears of. [...] In his presentation he put forward the idea that systematization of the architectural process began in 1445 with the creation of the concept of lineamenta, which disrupted the lives of builders who had not learned the new technical requirements. [...] The digital world is similarly disrupting the analog world in the way we interact with the housing cycle.