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Episode 96: If you follow local government, whether in big cities or small towns, you’ll undoubtably hear debates about parking. There is often little agreement about how to pay for parking, how much to require and where to put it.

The recent book by Henry Graber, β€œPaved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World,” is taking a critical look at our country’s obsession with parking.

The hosts discuss why such policies can hurt cities and often cause a lack of affordable housing.

Links to stories discussed during the podcast:

America has eight parking spaces for every car. Here’s how cities are rethinking that land, by Daniel Baldwin Hess and Jeffrey Rehler, Fast Company

Why the U.S. builds more three-car garages than one-bedroom apartments, by Connor Donevan, Christopher Intagliata and Juana Summers, National Public Radio

About the hosts:Β Scott RadaΒ is social media manager with Lee Enterprises, and Richard Kyte is the director of theΒ D.B. Reinhart Institute for Ethics in Leadership at Viterbo University in La Crosse, Wis.

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