#1496 Home Is Where The Hardship Is (Housing Crisis)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 15 June 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 6/15/2022
Today we take a look at the many reasons why we are experiencing a housing crisis in the US and beyond but it mostly comes down to treating housing as a commodity to be profited from rather than a basic human need or, if you're feeling radical, a basic human right.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: The Housing Market - If You Don't Know, Now You Know - The Daily Show - Air Date 12-8-21
Why has it become so hard to buy a home in America? If you don’t know, now you know.
Ch. 2: How Foreign Companies Are Raising Housing Prices - Thom Hartmann Program - Air Date 12-27-21
Should corporations be allowed to buy houses and raise the housing price in your neighborhood?
Ch. 3: John and Ana React to Bonkers Housing Story - The Damage Report - Air Date 3-12-22
The housing market has reached frightening heights which has people looking elsewhere for home buying.
Ch. 4: How Socialists Solved The Housing Crisis - The Gravel Institute - Air Date 1-29-21
Zohran Mamdani, New York State assemblyman, talks about how Austrian socialists in the 1920s and ‘30s pioneered an approach that offered better, cheaper, and safer homes for everyone.
What happens when the housing bubble bursts? It is easy to see when it has happened but spotting a collapse ahead of time is difficult.
Ch. 6: Eviction Rates Are Rising - The Takeaway - Air Date 5-13-22
Discussing the need for tenants to have a right to counsel in eviction proceedings
Ch. 7: Why Dems Have Abandoned Public Housing - The Majority Report - Air Date 4-9-22
The Democratic Party has no plan to address the homeless crisis the United States is facing today. One way to fix it would be to provide public housing to people.
MEMBERS-ONLY BONUS CLIP(S)
George Clarke visits a council estate in Vienna and is shocked by what he finds.
Ch. 9: Short-term rental housing is hurting Ouray residents - Rocky Mountain PBS - Air Date 7-19-21
Increasing housing prices, rent, construction costs, and short-term rental (STR) properties have created an environment that fewer and fewer people are able to thrive in.
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 10: Final comments on supporting affordable housing through the Build Back Better bill
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Demand Targeted Affordable Housing Investments Stay in Any Reconciliation Package!
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EDUCATE YOURSELF & SHARE
Resurrected budget package no slam dunk as negotiations heat up (June 6th via RollCall)
Affordable housing in the US is increasingly scarce, making renters ask: Where do we go? (March 14th via The Conversation)
Housing Investments in Build Back Better Would Address Pressing Unmet Needs (Feb. 10th via Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
A growing share of Americans say affordable housing is a major problem where they live (Jan. 18th via Pew Research Center)
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Description: An illustration of a simple green house with a "$" symbol incorporated into it. The vertical line of the symbol is also the shape of the chimney and the front door. Small dollar signs flow out of the chimney, getting smaller as they go up.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award winning best of left podcast in which we shall take |
| 0:07.2 | a look at the many reasons why we are experiencing a housing crisis in the US and beyond. |
| 0:13.4 | But it's mostly down to treating housing as a commodity to be profited from rather than |
| 0:18.4 | a basic human need, or if you're feeling radical, a basic human right. |
| 0:23.8 | Clips today are from the Daily Show, the Tom Hartman program, the Damage Report, the |
| 0:28.9 | Revelle Institute, the Takeaway and the Majority Report with additional members only clips |
| 0:35.1 | from Rocky Mountain PBS and Channel 4 Documentaries. |
| 0:45.7 | For decades, owning a home has been one of the core parts of the American dream, just below |
| 0:51.4 | dating Pete Davidson. |
| 0:52.7 | But right now, actually buying a home is harder than Matt Gaetz watching the new saved |
| 0:58.9 | by the bell. |
| 1:00.1 | With the housing market red hot, prospective buyers are trying not to get burned as demand |
| 1:05.5 | sores, but supply is limited. |
| 1:08.0 | Home prices rising at their highest rate in 15 years and demand so intense that red |
| 1:13.2 | fin reports nearly half of homes are selling within a week of hitting the market. |
| 1:17.4 | Home buyers in astronomical bidding wars, homes vanishing from listings hours after being posted. |
| 1:22.6 | You go to an open house, there could be 50 cars in a line outside waiting to see that |
| 1:28.6 | property. |
| 1:29.6 | People are so desperate that they'll court favors, you know, potential sellers, tickets |
| 1:35.9 | to rare events. |
| 1:37.5 | Even houses with notorious histories are selling. |
| 1:40.7 | This is the 100-year-old Mediterranean-style home in LA where the Charles Manson family |
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