Hi, my name is Katie Stiggers. I'm a long time-pant suit politics listener and I've worked in the housing industry for a few years.

Nothing I say speaks for my employer.

One of the things that we're seeing in the housing market is that there's less filtering

because there's not enough supply in the market.

People who normally would buy a new house, a bigger house, some more expensive house, and release the house that they're in back into the market

aren't doing that. There's nowhere to go or there's not enough places that they want to go.

At the same time, the houses that they would otherwise leave aren't available for new families to buy.

There is some stickiness in the market.

Similarly, sometimes we see people with gentrification buying houses that they then fix up.

And then the house that they left say in the suburbs or wherever becomes available for a family that wants to move there.

We're not seeing as much of that at all because they just aren't houses to move to and that's the result of a lot of other factors.

This is Sarah Stewart Holland and this is Beth Silverce.

Thank you for joining us for Pantsy Politics.

Hello and thank you so much for joining us for a new episode of Pantsy Politics.

Today we're going to check in on Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

We're going to talk about affordable housing, which if our Instagram post reviewing this topic is any indication is something that is on everyone's minds.

And then as we see the school year wrap up and get into the summer, we're going to chat about what the summer holds for each of us and how we're going to cope with the summer.

Is that a fair thing to say?

Copying the summer.

But before we get started, we just wanted to say thank you to everyone who's taken a second to review our book now what how to move forward when we're divided about basically everything.

We are at the stage in the process now where your purchases are still very, very important and after you've purchased.

If you could say one sentence about hopefully how much you enjoyed the book, we would really, really appreciate it.

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