Little pink houses for nobody

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🗓️ 14 June 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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California is the most populous state in the country, but people increasingly can’t afford to live there. Single family zoning is partly to blame, but state legislators haven’t been able to dump the housing policy. Minneapolis has. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Congratulations to my Toronto Raptors for winning the NBA Championship last night.
0:05.1	Toronto is a great sports town on a great lake.
0:10.0	It's reminiscent of another great sports town on a great lake, the city of Chicago.
0:14.7	Chicago is in Illinois.
0:16.6	Illinois can be described as amazing.
0:19.6	And you can find out all about how amazing Illinois is at enjoyillinois.com.
0:25.4	Illinois, are you up for amazing?
0:31.0	Alright guys, we gotta talk about zoning.
0:34.5	Not because we want to, but because we have to.
0:38.5	You are now entering the zoning zone on today's play.
1:00.7	Housing crisis in California is worse than it is anywhere else in the country.
1:05.9	Henry Grabar writes about housing for slate.
1:08.9	In Los Angeles, the median home sells for $650,000.
1:13.4	And to be clear, that's the entire metro area.
1:16.4	So that includes LA County and most of the surroundings.
1:19.7	That's the second largest metro area in the entire country.
1:23.0	Routing out the top four cities for median home prices.
1:26.3	San Diego, which is just under 600,000.
1:29.0	Yikes.
1:29.8	San Francisco, which is 947,000.
1:32.8	Hug.
1:33.5	And San Jose, which is at 1.2 million.
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