Katherine Levine Einstein on Neighborhood Defenders

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🗓️ 14 December 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Why is affordable housing in such short supply? Author and political scientist Katherine Levine Einstein of Boston University talks about her book Neighborhood Defenders with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Einstein focuses on the ability of local residents to use the zoning and permit process to prevent development of housing or to reduce the amount of housing that can be built.

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0:00.0	Welcome to E-Con Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:06.4	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
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0:32.2	Today is November 13, 2020, and my guest is political scientist and author, Katherine
0:36.7	Levin Einstein of Boston University.
0:40.2	She is the author with David Glick and Maxwell Palmer of Neighborhood Defenders, Participatory
0:46.9	Politics and America's Housing Grises.
0:49.9	I want to thank Plantronics for providing today's guest with the Blackwire 5220 headset.
0:54.8	Katherine, welcome to E-Con Talk.
0:56.8	Thanks for having me.
0:58.2	Your book drills down deeply into one aspect of the housing market that I think is incredibly
1:04.5	important and underappreciated, and it's a factor that I confess I hadn't thought enough
1:09.6	about.
1:10.6	Let's start with the title, Neighborhood Defenders.
1:14.8	What does that phrase mean and why are Neighborhood Defenders important?
1:18.7	Yeah.
1:19.7	The way that housing gets built in most places involves the public permitting process.
1:25.8	Essentially in most communities, because of the way that land use regulations are set
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