The Housing Crisis, and Helping Renters During the Pandemic
After Hours
TED Audio Collective / Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, & Felix Oberholzer-Gee
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Youngme Moon , Felix Oberholzer-Gee , and Mihir Desai discuss the housing crisis and what the coronavirus pandemic means for renters, in particular.
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective. I believe in rethinking ideas we've taken for granted to learn how to live better. |
| 0:14.1 | In my new podcast, Rethinking, I ask today's greatest minds, how they think, and what assumptions |
| 0:20.1 | we should all reconsider. Listen to rethinking wherever you get your |
| 0:23.4 | podcasts. |
| 0:25.8 | HBR presents. Hi everyone you're listening to after hours I'm young me I'm me here and I'm Felix and we are |
| 0:48.0 | coming to you from three separate locations we are practicing physical distance, but not social distance. |
| 0:53.8 | Yes, socially close, but physically distance. |
| 0:56.8 | And you guys look fantastic on my video? |
| 0:59.8 | I'm using that beauty filter that's why it's all in the beautification. |
| 1:07.0 | I didn't know there was such a thing. |
| 1:09.6 | Didn't you notice the difference in my skin tone? |
| 1:12.0 | Oh, my skin looks so amazing. |
| 1:14.0 | I thought it was just some Korean face mask you've been using. |
| 1:18.0 | Meanwhile, here, you are looming. |
| 1:22.0 | You are so tall. You know know I'm nestling my iPhone right on my |
| 1:26.1 | laptop and it's making me look like a giant yeah I agree I got to fix I feel like a |
| 1:31.2 | habit next to you okay Okay, so are you guys ready to get started? Yeah, let's do it. So as you guys know, it's been another tough few days on so many dimensions. We are at a stage now where |
| 1:47.7 | the news from around the world on the public health front continues to be very sobering and the economic news also continues to be |
| 1:56.0 | extremely grim. There's been quite a bit of variance in how different governments |
| 2:00.2 | are responding so here in the US the Fed made another incredibly aggressive move |
| 2:06.1 | on Monday the Financial Times headline was that the Fed has brought out the |
| 2:11.1 | bazookas pledging to buy treasuries in unlimited amounts, among other |
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