Conor Dougherty: How to Fix America's Housing Crisis - Supply & Demand, Wall Street's Role, and New Cities

The Realignment

Technology, News Commentary, National Security, Marshall Kosloff, International Relations, News, Public Policy, Economics, Politics, Saager Enjeti, U.s. Politics, Policy

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🗓️ 4 September 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Conor Dougherty, New York Times reporter and author of Golden Gates: The Housing Crisis and a Reckoning for the American Dream, returns to The Realignment. Marshall and Conor discuss how and why the housing crisis became one the 2024 election's biggest policy issues, the proper mix of supply and demand approaches to increasing the overall supply of housing, whether Wall Street investors are responsible for the problem, and the viability of new city projects like California Forever.

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0:00.0	Marshall here. Welcome back to the realignment.
0:05.0	Hey everyone, welcome back to the show. Today's episode is with the New York Times is Connor Doherty.
0:13.3	Connor reports on the state of American housing.
0:16.6	In this conversation we discuss the nature of the housing crisis
0:20.2	and how we can best approach a situation.
0:23.0	We go through why efforts to make the demand side of housing,
0:26.5	may have promised, but have a bunch of flaws,
0:29.0	and the broader conversation of why increasing supply
0:32.0	from variety of means is probably the best way forward.
0:35.6	Hope you all enjoy the conversation and a huge thank you to the Foundation
0:39.3	for American Innovation for supporting the work of this podcast.
0:42.8	Karnar Doherty, welcome back to the realignment.
0:49.2	Thanks for having me.
0:50.4	It's been a while.
0:51.7	I guess it was during the pandemic.
0:54.0	2021.
0:55.0	Yeah.
0:56.0	Mid-Pandemic, I caught you towards the tail end of your book tour.
1:01.0	And today's episode is all about housing and how it relates to American politics broadly,
1:06.2	but considering it's been a couple of years, can you just sort of introduce people to your B and
1:10.0	this offer a quick summary of the book? Yeah, so. and this
1:15.0	off for a quick summary of the book.
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