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Daryl Simpson

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Aug 28, 2026

31:13
Given your vantage point, what are some lessons learned as someone leading one of the larger development companies in the city? Wow, lots
31:24
of lessons these days.
31:25
I thought I was getting too old to learn new lessons, but I'm definitely not, right? Well, I think one of the biggest things is I say we in the collective sense.
31:35
I think we as an industry took our eye off a few balls.
31:39
One of them was we allowed government to be an active participant and profiteer in the housing industry.
31:47
So while population exploded and while interest rates dropped, We didn't pay enough attention to what was really happening in the background.
31:56
And so those government extractions that just kept going up and up and up and up and created a cost of delivery crisis, not a supply crisis.

7 MINS LATER

38:44
How does the industry change? Do you think everybody will be better for it? What will it look like?

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