Parking not required.

<p><strong><a href="https://evepicker.com/parking-not-required/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BE SURE TO SEE THE SHOWNOTES AND LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE HERE.</a></strong></p> <p><strong>Eve Picker:</strong> [00:00:00] Hi there, thanks so much for joining me today for the latest episode of Impact Real Estate Investing.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Eve:</strong> [00:00:06] My guest today is Donald Shoup. Dr. Shoup is a distinguished research professor with a focus on economics in the Department of Urban Planning at UCLA. He began studying parking as a key link between transportation and land use with important consequences for cities, the economy and the environment. His book, The High Cost of Free Parking, turned an otherwise academic topic into a significant policy issue. A second book, Parking in the City showed that parking reforms can improve urban metro areas, both economically and environmentally.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Eve:</strong> [00:00:47] Be sure to go to evepicker.com to find out more about Donald Shoup on the show notes page for this episode. And be sure to sign up for my newsletter so you can access information about impact real estate investing and get the latest news about the exciting projects on my crowdfunding platform, Small change.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Eve:</strong> [00:01:08] Hello, Donald. I'm really delighted that you've been able to join me today.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Donald Shoup:</strong> [00:01:13] Well, thanks for inviting me to Dallas.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Eve:</strong> [00:01:15] Yes. You've spent your career deeply immersed in parking and land economic issues, both of which are really hot button subjects right now. So, I'm wondering, first of all, how did you get interested in the economics of parking and why?</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Donald:</strong> [00:01:33] Well, like everybody in parking, I think I backed in. Nobody wants to grow up to be in the parking business. They say, well, I was doing my PEC Dissertation in economics. I was working on land economics. So, I came to i