Money Talks: The NIMBY Catch-22
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4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
It’s Money Talks…live! This episode was taped at The Hewlett Foundation’s annual New Common Sense Conference, where Felix Salmon chatted with Jerusalem Demsas, who covers housing and infrastructure for The Atlantic. They discuss the NIMBY mentality, regulatory tangles holding back real estate development, and what we have to give up to gain more affordable housing.
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| 0:53.0 | That's oracle.com slash bandwidth. Hello I'm so excited. Welcome to Money Talks from Slate Money, Live from Cavallo Point, Sausalito. |
| 1:18.5 | I am Felix Salmon of Axios and this is a podcast where I talk to awesome, brilliant, interesting, fabulous people and so we looked |
| 1:28.5 | around the illustrious list of awesome, brilliant, fabulous people and we discovered that the most awesome |
| 1:35.5 | and the most brilliant and the most fabulous person is Jerusalem Demsas. |
| 1:39.0 | Hello. Jerusalem welcome. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:43.0 | And introduce yourself, who are you? |
| 1:46.0 | Well, I have the official title thing, |
| 1:48.0 | the best person in Sausalito apparently. |
| 1:50.0 | But other than that, I am a staff writer at the Atlantic where I write about |
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