Rethinking our Way Out of the Affordable Housing Crisis

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News, Politics, News Commentary

4.2 • 726 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The astronomical price of housing is the root source of so many of the Bay Area’s most pressing problems and bitter battles. A problem so big begs for big ideas. In this show we explore a couple of novel approaches to spur the creation of affordable housing by fundamentally changing the way we think of land and property ownership. We’ll talk about the new popularity of an old idea – taxing the value of land instead of the property on it – and about the growing community land trust movement. Guests: Noni Session, co-founder and executive director, East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative Lars Doucet, author, "Land Is a Big Deal: Why Rent Is Too High, Wages Too Low, and What We Can Do about It" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.1	From KQED.
0:37.1	Music From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.
0:48.5	We have done dozens of shows on the quote housing market here in the Bay Area,
0:53.2	and the inevitable conclusion of just
0:55.2	about all of those shows has been, for regular people, the housing market is just broken.
1:01.2	And the types of mainstream solutions that get mentioned don't seem to be working.
1:05.8	So today we take a step back and ask deeper questions about how and why the system has failed through the work of
1:12.6	two people pushing their own unusual solutions. One will tell us about a land value tax, a boring
1:18.1	title for a fascinating idea, and the other will tell us about an innovative land trust in Oakland,
1:23.3	the East Bay Permanent Real Estate Collective. That's all coming up next after this news.
1:36.0	Welcome to Forum.
1:37.4	I'm Alexis Madrigal.
1:39.0	So we have a bit of an unusual show for you today.
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