Marshall here. Welcome back to the Realignment.

In the Democratic debate before the nomination,

I'm the Democratic primary. There was a couple housing questions.

All of the candidates felt like they had to have a housing plan,

which even if they're just bullet points, the fact that they're advisors.

I mean, I've talked to these people and I remember one of their advisors,

I never felt like I had to have a housing plan before. You know what I mean? Now we do.

So that's something. But I think the most important thing that's happened

and is happening is this sort of sociological change where younger people

are kind of, I mean, under 40 and even older too, but you know,

we're people are starting to like take, we need enough housing for people as a value.

It's like a value the way like I care about the environment. It became a value in the 70s.

I've got an incredible conversation between me and Conrad Ority.

He is the economic supporter at the New York Times.

And last year he wrote a book called Golden Gates,

the housing crisis and a reckoning for the American dream.

Everyone all over Twitter group chats back from high school

has been really obsessed with the topic of housing lately. Why is it that?

It feels like a lot of us, especially the millennials in the audience, can't afford to buy house.

Why is the rent so damn high in the first place? And why does it feel like there's a homeless

this crisis across cities like Portland, D.C., New York, Austin, San Francisco,

basically anywhere you could imagine.

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