Suggested questions

1You’ve said you got into real estate by noticing what wasn’t working — what was the first moment that made that gap impossible for you to ignore?

2Why do large real estate developments feel safer to investors on paper, and where do you see them quietly underperform in practice?

3California is often written off as too risky to invest in — based on your experience, what do most investors misunderstand about that risk?

4You work on ADUs and small infill projects rather than big master plans — what do those incremental projects reveal about how cities actually change?

5Housing laws pass, headlines move on, and yet homes often don’t get built — where does the process usually break down after legislation?

6When you look at housing through a cultural lens rather than a technical one, what does scarcity tell us about who our systems are designed for?

7How does housing scarcity show up in everyday family decisions long before people label it a “housing crisis”?

8Investors are often told impact and returns are separate conversations — how has your experience building housing challenged that framing?

9Across hundreds of projects, what assumptions about development or housing have you personally had to unlearn?

10If you zoom out from individual deals, what do you think our housing choices today are quietly shaping about society ten or twenty years from now?