# Professor Arun Sundararajan discusses the popularity of Roost, a space-rental startup

1 Faculty News September 9, 2016 ![The Washington Post logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031074.jpg?itok=f6OME_Rm)>

Excerpt from [The Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/would-you-store-your-stuff-in-someone-elses-closet-this-start-up-is-banking-on-it/2016/09/09/6b5c7286-751e-11e6-be4f-3f42f2e5a49e_story.html) -- "'For something like parking, there is huge potential in the peer-to-peer model,' said [Arun Sundararajan](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/arun-sundararajan), a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business. 'There’s a shortage of it in pretty major every large city, and it typically doesn’t require using space inside someone’s house.'"

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