Here's Why The Housing Market Is Permanently Broken
Making the Argument with Nick Freitas
Nick Freitas
4.4 • 743 Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2025
⏱️ 109 minutes
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Summary
The housing market is broken and has been for a long time. But why is that? How did things get so bad, and what can be done to ensure that Zoomers and younger Millennials have the opportunity to buy a home of their own one day?
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00:00:00 Intro
00:02:40 What Buying A Home Is Like Today
00:08:42 What Led To The 2008 Housing Crash?
00:18:39 The Data Behind America’s Broken Housing Market
00:39:51 What Broke the Housing Market
00:50:00 Homes Have Almost Never Been Cheaper…In Gold
01:07:30 Are Things About To Get Even Worse?
01:15:22 The Blue State Model Has Failed Spectacularly
01:28:45 What You Can Do About This And Why All Hope Isn’t Lost
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | All right, the housing market is broken. And guess what? Newsflash, it has been for a while now. |
| 0:05.5 | And everybody has got various solutions that they're going to offer on either how to fix it |
| 0:09.4 | or to give various explanations on why it's broke. The left says one thing. The right says |
| 0:14.4 | another thing. Various people within the real estate market say something entirely different. |
| 0:18.3 | Most real estate agents I know tell you it's always good, |
| 0:25.2 | probably because they're trying to tell houses. But the bottom line is that there's a lot of leading indicators right now in order to demonstrate that not only that the housing market is |
| 0:29.2 | kind of in trouble, but it could potentially get worse. And yet there's different indicators |
| 0:33.4 | which suggests that there could be a rebound. And it all just kind of depends on region. |
| 0:37.6 | The bottom line is, is what is the bottom line? |
| 0:40.9 | Is there any way for us to be able to accurately predict what is going on? |
| 0:44.1 | Is there any way for us to fix the wild fluctuations that have been taking place in the housing |
| 0:48.6 | market for, well, quite some time now? |
| 0:50.9 | And most importantly, how do you navigate the market as it is not how we wish it |
| 0:55.7 | would be? That is what we're going to discuss on today's episode of making the argument. |
| 1:00.1 | I am your host, Nick Freitas with me in the studio, my beautiful bride and co-house owner, |
| 1:05.2 | Tina, Queen of the Bees. |
| 1:06.3 | Hello, everyone. And then of course, we have our potential new house owner, first time house buyer, the Oracle of Virginia, Christian Heinz. How are you doing? |
| 1:14.5 | I'm really excited for this episode. All right. Well, we're going to dive right into it. But before we do that, we need to go in and let you know who helped us dive into this episode. And that is ground news. In fact, we went over to ground news and we started asking them, hey, where we can find articles about what's going on with the housing market. |
| 1:29.3 | We found this one. |
| 1:30.4 | Home builders navigate higher material costs, uncertain supply chains amid trade war, |
| 1:35.4 | which, as you guessed, it is generally how the left is talking about rising house prices |
| 1:39.7 | within the United States. |
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