Stephanie Kestelman

@stephkestelman.bsky.social

Director of Housing Research at Arnold Ventures. Harvard Econ PhD. I study cities and their regulations. Proud dog mom to Dexter.

North America has an elevator problem. Elevators are more expensive to install and maintain in the United States and Canada than elsewhere in the developed world. These higher costs are driven in part by the fact that the US & Canada use a different elevator code than most of the rest of the world