#1600 Housing Cannot be a Fundamental Human Right and a Commodity at the Same Time
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 23 December 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 12/23/2023
The housing crisis is at a worse point than at any time in recent history. Solutions are available and require political will to bring into reality but because the problem is now so widespread, we may actually be able to take action that would have been untenable before.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: Housing is a Moral Issue w Shaun Donovan - Future Hindsight - Air Date 12-7-23
Shaun Donovan is the CEO and President of Enterprise Community Partners. We discuss how the deeply entrenched housing crisis has become worse in recent years and the multiple strategies to make home and community places of pride, power, and belonging.
On this week’s show, Fanta — a reporter for WNYC’s Radio Rookies — speaks with residents, organizers and officials as she tries to find out what this program means for families like hers.
Ch. 3: Biden In Trouble With Voters Over Inequality And Housing - The Majority Report - Air Date 11-28-23
President Joe Biden’s approval ratings surrounding the economy are not good! What, if anything, can Biden and the Democrat do to improve on those poll numbers (maybe…run on something? Anything?)
Ch. 4: Housing is a Moral Issue w Shaun Donovan Part 2 - Future Hindsight - Air Date 12-7-23
Ch. 6: Why The US Is Failing At Housing And How To Fix It - The Majority Report - Air Date 7-9-23
Rachel Cohen describes how the US housing crisis came to be and how it can be solved.
Ch. 7: Housing is a Moral Issue w Shaun Donovan Part 3 - Future Hindsight - Air Date 12-7-23
Is Paris more gentrified than New York? Gentrification is the process where beloved cities & towns price out residents with rents ‘too damn high’ to pay & failing infrastructure.
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Ch. 10: How to build beautiful social housing in a crisis - Channel 4 News - 9-7-23
The architect Peter Barber has been winning awards for turning tiny patches of land into innovative estates and houses, designed not just to be beautiful – but to foster a sense of community too.
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 11: Final comments on why North America Can't Build Nice Apartments
Bonus: Why North America Can't Build Nice Apartments (because of one rule)
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| 0:24.3 | Welcome to this episode of the award winning Best of Left |
| 0:30.6 | podcast in which we will look at the fact that the housing crisis is at a |
| 0:34.2 | worse point than at any time in recent history. |
| 0:38.2 | Solutions are available and require political will to bring into reality, but because the problem is now so widespread we may actually |
| 0:46.2 | be able to take action that would have been untenable before. |
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| 1:04.0 | So let's jump right in. |
| 1:10.0 | So let's jump right in. |
| 1:11.0 | Describe the current crisis in housing and how is it worse than it ever was? |
| 1:17.0 | Well, I've been doing this about 30 years starting in the South Bronx. I grew up here in New York City and I would say the crisis has |
| 1:25.6 | been getting worse over those decades but during the COVID crisis we actually saw rents increasing more than we ever have since |
| 1:35.8 | we started keeping records. Literally never seen bigger increases, 18% increase |
| 1:40.9 | in rent year over year. |
| 1:43.0 | And I think what is different about it beyond the numbers |
| 1:48.2 | is the level of homelessness we see on our streets. |
| 1:51.8 | And so often the housing issues have been problems of |
| 1:56.0 | the coasts or problems of big cities. Now I was talking to a senator the other |
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