The Fight for Affordable Housing

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🗓️ 22 June 2026

⏱️ 15 minutes

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A.M. Edition for June 22. U.K prime minister Keir Starmer resigns as his potential successor says he wants to save Britain from U.S. style politics. Plus, peace talks continue in Switzerland as Iran and the U.S. agree to create a mechanism to ensure the termination of military operations in Lebanon. And the great American housing shortage is forcing a search for solutions. In the first part of our new series, Luke Vargas and WSJ’s Rebecca Picciotto dive into the persistent zoning tug-of-war pitting "Not In My Backyard" politics against "Yes In My Backyard" advocates pushing for more construction. Daniel Bach hosts. Sign up for the WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter.

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0:00.0	President Trump's posts threatened to disrupt talks with Iran, but both sides agreed to continue.
0:08.8	Plus, yet another British Prime Minister resigns, and we kick off a new series looking at how to fix
0:14.8	the U.S. housing shortage. Housing really dies a death by a thousand cuts. If you say, like, you know, this housing proposal
0:22.6	needs to fix every problem. It needs to provide housing, but it also needs to make sure it
0:27.9	fixes all the traffic problems in our town, then builders will just simply pull out.
0:33.0	It's Monday, June 22nd. I'm Daniel Bach for the Wall Street Journal, filling in for Luke Vardis, and here is the AM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories
0:41.7	moving your world today. We begin in Switzerland, where the U.S. and Iran have agreed to
0:49.5	continue negotiations towards shoring up a preliminary peace deal to end the war. Vice President Jady Vance
0:55.9	was there to lead the talks over the weekend, which the U.S. had hoped would center around
1:00.6	curbing Tehran's nuclear program. The question before us now is how much more can we accomplish
1:05.3	together? Can we turn over a new leaf? Can we change relations in the Middle East permanently?
1:12.6	Or do we go back to doing things the old way, which is not our preference, but is certainly very much something
1:16.7	that can't happen. For now, the sides have agreed to a mechanism aimed at ending fighting in Lebanon,
1:21.8	a key sticking point for Iran. Journal Middle East correspondent Benoit Foucahn is in Losan
1:27.2	following talks and says
1:28.8	Vance was put in an awkward position following some social media posts by President Trump,
1:33.8	which Iran's lead negotiator took exception to.
1:36.8	Halibah was very angry that Trump obviously threatened Iran over its support of Hezbollah
1:43.0	during the talks. Obviously, they didn't
1:45.8	know during the session because they don't have their phones. But once he came out, I mean, I was told
1:50.1	by someone who was present that he said, you know, did you know that your boss was going to say that?
1:54.6	You know, it's kind of really causing to question sincerity of this talks, of this engagement.
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