Hello and welcome to the housing bonanza episode of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week.

It is a blockbuster show for you this week.

I'm Felix Salmon of Axios.

I'm joined by Anna Schumansky of Breaking Views.

I'm joined by Emily Peck of HuffPost.

Hello.

And most excitingly, we have Conard Daughty from the New York Times.

You are based in California and you have written a spectacularly good book called Golden Gates all about housing. Golden Gates Fighting for Housing in America is the name of the book. And it is this look at all sorts of different people from the very richest to the very poorest fighting for housing in

America. And we are going to do a deep dive into all of the issues surrounding housing in this

episode. We can talk about zoning. We're going to talk about homelessness. We're going to talk about

nimbism. We're going to talk about the great hope of the millennial generation. We're going to talk about Frisco, Texas. We're going to talk about the great hope of the millennial generation.

We're going to talk about Frisco, Texas.

We're going to talk about Atherton, California.

We're going to talk a lot about Lafayette.

And we're going to talk in wonderful detail about,

is house price is something we want to go up or is house price it something we want to go down?

All of that.

Yeah, by the way,

spoiler alert, we haven't quite answered that one. All of which is coming up on slate money.

So I was just talking to a guy from the National Association of Realtors who, you know,

obviously is not entirely... It's a great time to buy.

But he – like, he was actually saying that prices are too high.

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