Tyson Dirksen

Housing scarcity in the United States is not a policy glitch—it is a systemic failure. As highlighted in The Housing Shortage Is a Systems Failure — Here’s the Framework to Fix It, scarcity emerges from five interdependent bottlenecks: restrictive zoning, inefficient delivery mechanisms, misaligned capital flows, low construction productivity, and…

Introduction: Understanding the Crisis Systemically America’s housing shortage is not caused by a single policy misstep or isolated market distortion. It is the emergent product of five interdependent systemic failures. Each failure amplifies the others, constraining supply, inflating costs, and destabilizing housing markets across price points. Addressing the crisis requires…

Tyson Dirksen’s 2026 Goals: From Projects To Platforms Over the last few years, the work has expanded from individual buildings to ecosystems: healthier multifamily, mass timber mixed-use, and a long-term coastal resort and town development in Nicaragua anchored in surf, wellness, and walkable, human-scale urbanism. In 2026, the focus is…

America’s housing shortage isn’t a policy glitch — it’s a systems problem. Five deeply interlinked failures — from restrictive zoning to misaligned capital, broken delivery, low construction productivity, and underutilized existing stock — are choking supply and driving costs. Solving housing means fixing all five together — not debating one…