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This Substack is a publication by Hancen Sale, a leading regional voice on housing, development, and economic issues. A lifelong Knoxville native, he brings a data-driven perspective to the big questions facing communities across East Tennessee.

It explores the forces shaping growth, affordability, and local policy—along with the occasional detour into current events or whatever else seems worth thinking about. Inspired by a weekly opinion column he wrote in college for The Daily Beacon and a monthly newsletter from his work in housing policy, the publication’s aim is to draw on data and history to make sense of complicated issues with clarity, curiosity, and a measure of balance.

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