This is a HeadGum Podcast. I don't know what to think

I don't know what to say

you're the guy's all right

yeah that's okay

I don't know anything.

Hello, welcome to factually, I'm Adam Conover.

And if you've listened to the show before you know that the housing crisis

in America is dire and on this episode we're going to talk about how we're going to

solve it but since we have to pose the problem, first just for fun, I'm going to try to recap how bad

to housing crisis is in just one breath. Okay? Here we go. 38 million American households spend more than a third of their income on rent, housing prices are rising at twice the rate wages are, and of course where rent is unaffordable, more people end up homeless.

And, since housing costs in cities are so out of control, people have no choice but to live in low-density suburbs and drive long distances in order to get to work all the while spelling planet-killing emissions out of their tailpipes.

Okay, that was one breath, but there is one more point I have to make.

And America's housing crisis, much like just about everything bad in American history,

affects people of color disproportionately because of how discriminatory policies like redlining and single family zoning

were designed to limit federal housing financing in African American

and other minority neighborhoods creating a racial wealth gap that's still aces today.

Okay I'm impressed that I did that, but unfortunately now we're all depressed.

Now when I talk about these issues, the most common question I get is, okay, smart guy, you

told me about the problem. What's the solution?

And the second most common is, what hair products do you use?

So for the record, let me just say, the answer is a blow dryer.

Okay, men, stop obsessing over the goop in the can and start blowing hot air on your head.

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