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Lost Debate

Ep 113 | Rent Control, Birth Control, ESAs

Lost Debate

The Branch

News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.6607 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Ravi and Rikki take a closer look at the Biden administration’s fair housing plan, potentially including one controversial proposal: rent control. Rikki then turns us to her recent reporting on the mental health effects of the pill and the nuances of birth control. Finally, we take stock of the school choice measure making waves across red and purple America: Education Savings Accounts.  [04:26] - Rent Control [23:33} - Birth Control [38:38] - ESA's [51:12} - Voicemails Leave us a voicemail with your thoughts on the show! 321-200-0570 Check out our show notes: https://lostdebate.com/2023/02/08/ep-113/ Subscribe to our feed on Spotify: http://bitly.ws/zC9K Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/3Gs5YTF Subscribe to our Substack: https://thelostdebate.substack.com/ Follow Lost Debate on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lostdebate/ Follow Lost Debate on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lostdebate Follow Lost Debate on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/thelostdebate The Lost Debate is also available on the following platforms:  Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-lost-debate iHeart: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-the-lost-debate-88330217/ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/752ca262-2801-466d-9654-2024de72bd1f/the-lost-debate

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0:00.0

If you try to control the price of rent, then you disincentivize building.

0:07.5

And the number one problem we have in housing in this country is a lack of supply.

0:20.1

Welcome to The Lost Debate, a show for politically eclectics. I'm Robbie Gupta. And I'm Ricky Schlaught. Well, Ricky, how is the great city of New York? City of New York, it's good. We had some warmer weather. Oh, here we go with the weather. It was literally like five degrees. Well, no, but truly, it was actually kind of interesting. It went from like five degrees to 50 degrees. So I don't know.

0:38.8

That was pretty shocking in like 24 hours span.

0:42.0

Yeah, it's funny.

0:42.5

I've been monitoring the weather because I've been subletting my apartment and I don't

0:46.1

have insulation in my apartment in the ceiling.

0:49.6

This is going to just lead to more concerned voicemails about me.

0:53.5

I get an abnormal about of concerned

0:55.5

voice bills. I think our listeners are alternatively confused. I know. They're confused

1:00.7

about my lifestyle. Interesting. It tells you everything you need to know about me. But I have no

1:06.4

insulation in my roof and I'm subletting my apartment. I was very clear with the person who's subletting my apartment that there's no insulation in the roof. And I was so worried about him. And I told him I'd refund him at any point if it got too cold. And he's just been like, it's been great. Like I was just telling me like, it must not be that cold in New York City because he's been like, it's truly terrible when it gets it drops below freezing in that

1:28.9

apartment and so far you got a tough renter but i mean i think it was just such a short period of time

1:34.4

that it was just it went freezing cold and then back to normal that maybe it was just a quick

1:39.4

enough chill that he made it through all right well we've got a pretty fun episode today but i got a couple of announcements to talk about Well, we've got a pretty fun episode today, but I got a couple of

1:45.0

announcements to talk about. One is we've got a new show that's dropping tomorrow. And it's the show

1:50.8

called Sweat the Technique. And it's a show that I'm doing with a bunch of veteran educators who have

1:56.6

been really successful in K to 12 education. And in some cases, outside of education,

2:02.1

and we talk about how we apply lessons learned

2:04.7

in the K to 12 system to things like hobbies, sports,

2:09.2

parenting, relationships, learning new skills,

2:12.5

being a manager.

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