# Clarence Perry

> Clarence Perry locates enduring theories of property, housing, planning, and community in human argument

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Stable ID | `node:kiduna:real-estate-mortgage:people-ideas:clarence-perry` |
| Family | People & Ideas |
| Domain | Culture |
| Era | Institutional Age → Agentic Age |
| Kind | person |
| Archetype | The Critic |
| Claim layers | empirical, cultural_historical, synthesis, interpretive, symbolic_divinatory |

## What it is

Clarence Perry is a person in the People & Ideas family, defined here by the function it performs in the property system rather than by label alone.

## What it actually does

Clarence Perry locates enduring theories of property, housing, planning, and community in human argument.

## Why it exists

It exists because place is unique and immovable while law, capital, information, and human lives must still coordinate around it across time.

## System mechanics

- **Who uses it:** owner, occupant, buyer, seller, lender, investor, steward, regulator
- **Incentives:** access, certainty, control, value, continuity
- **Inputs:** place, people, records, rules, resources, time
- **Outputs:** rights, constraints, uses, relationships, consequences
- **Dependencies:** Land, Authority, Information, Capital, Time

## Archetypal reading

- **Essence:** Clarence Perry locates enduring theories of property, housing, planning, and community in human argument
- **Gift:** Clarity about clarence perry makes a hidden allocation of place, time, authority, value, or risk available for deliberate choice.
- **Wound / Shadow:** When clarence perry is treated as neutral or inevitable, its costs can be shifted to people who hold less information, authority, liquidity, or mobility.
- **Failure mode:** The failure mode appears when clarence perry is stale, opaque, mispriced, misrecorded, overextended, or applied outside the conditions that made it useful.

## Lenses

- **Personal:** Notice where clarence perry appears as a structure in your own commitments: what is held, promised, priced, protected, excluded, or deferred?
- **Business:** Clarence Perry reveals a handoff among information, authority, incentives, operating work, and capital. Make the owner of each handoff explicit.
- **Financial:** Clarence Perry changes the timing, priority, comparability, liquidity, or distribution of cash flow and risk.
- **Property:** Clarence Perry changes how a physical place can be used, valued, financed, transferred, occupied, maintained, or reclaimed.
- **Community:** Clarence Perry can create benefits inside one parcel while exporting costs or opportunity to neighbors, institutions, or future residents.

## Divination

The Critic enters the reading through Clarence Perry. The issue is not only what is visible; it is which map of ownership, time, risk, authority, or belonging currently governs the situation.

**Question:** What changes when Clarence Perry becomes the unit of analysis?

**Guidance:** Shift scale, clock, stakeholder, boundary, and claim layer before choosing a move.

## Game function

Creates a graph move that changes the active map. Initiative 1.

## Relationships

- **Broadband conflicts with Clarence Perry.** Broadband conflicts with Clarence Perry through a change in rights, information, cash flow, priority, timing, or physical use.
- **William Levitt conflicts with Clarence Perry.** William Levitt conflicts with Clarence Perry through a change in rights, information, cash flow, priority, timing, or physical use.
- **Clarence Perry is evidenced by Housing Demand.** Clarence Perry is evidenced by Housing Demand through a change in rights, information, cash flow, priority, timing, or physical use.

## Oppositions

- Use Value versus Exchange Value
- Speed versus Diligence

## Historical lineage and regulatory context

Read Clarence Perry through the lineage of People & Ideas: earlier customary or local arrangements became recorded, standardized, financed, regulated, digitized, or contested over time.

Rules vary by jurisdiction and transaction. Use the cited primary sources as starting points and verify current local law, program guides, contracts, and professional standards before operational use.

## Visual direction

Text-free rounded-square enamel artifact for Clarence Perry: one dominant symbolic mechanism with a restrained secondary counterforce; vitreous midnight enamel, blackened steel, warm brass, copper accents, mortgage-paper cream, deep green, slate, and sky blue.

## Engine output / Sentinel handoff

The generative interpretation above is preserved as Engine Output. Sentinel factors: jurisdiction-specific rules, factual uncertainty, real individuals, historical context. These factors request contextual review; they do not delete or silently rewrite the candidate.

## Research / provenance

- [The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report](https://www.govinfo.gov/features/financial-crisis-inquiry-report) — Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission / U.S. Government Publishing Office; causes and mechanisms of the 2007–2009 financial crisis.
- [Energy Codes 101](https://www.energy.gov/cmei/buildings/articles/energy-codes-101-what-are-they-and-what-does-role) — U.S. Department of Energy; model codes, adoption, enforcement, building systems.
