Ep 195: The Landlord Experience w/ Kevin Rogan (part 1)

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Sean KB and AP Andy

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4.2 • 970 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Sean is joined by the notorious Kevin Rogan, urbanism blogger extraordinaire and Marxist scourge of landlord Twitter, to talk about how housing, development and rent under capitalism.

How do housing markets work? (Hint: not at all) Why are landlords objectively both evil and stupid? (Hint: it's baked in) What do NIMBYs/YIMBYs represent? (Hint: two competing factions of capital) How do we fight the land owners and win? And how do tenant unions fit into the broader struggle against capital?

This is part one of an extended discussion. For the second half - a whole hour of takes on Matt Yglesias, intra-petit bourg warfare over the soul of city, and Mr Skanska looking over the back of US building capital - become a patron today at www.patreon.com/theantifada

Kevin's Substack: https://kevinrogan.substack.com/

Song: Mirah - Dear Landlord

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0:00.0	Dear Landmour, please don't put a price on my soul.
0:16.0	I think that is episode 200.
0:18.0	Oh, yeah.
0:20.0	It's close to that 198 or something.
0:22.0	It's something. Yeah, or something. The Simpsons numbers.
0:23.0	Yeah, we're getting up there, man.
0:25.0	Too many seasons, this is season five.
0:27.0	We've had some cast changes too.
0:29.0	Oh, for real.
0:30.0	I must confess, I don't really follow a podcast.
0:33.4	Oh bless your heart man.
0:35.4	You never listened to the one we did with Sam Stein then.
0:38.1	I did listen to the same one.
0:39.7	Yeah, about five or six people sent me the Sam Stein one including
0:43.7	Sam Stein so oh he did yeah Sam Stein is a great guy he was that was one of the
0:48.4	favorite episodes that we've done my favorite yeah that I loved that one he's really awesome what is he up to these
0:53.8	days i don't know i think he's just kind of gone to ground and doing his uh he's like
0:58.7	participating real hard and like local just you know basic stuff where you know NIMBs and
1:04.7	YEMBs all clash and like City Council meetings and that sort of shit.
1:08.9	Wow that's actually very appropriate for what we're gonna be be talking about because we're going to be talking
1:13.9	about Yimbi versus Nimbi.
1:15.9	We're going to be talking about urban development, quote unquote.
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