The Impending American Housing Crisis

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🗓️ 13 March 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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First thing's first: Coronavirus! A request from listeners and a short PSA. Second: Are we at the beginning of a massive nationwide housing crisis in America that will force millions into homelessness? Conor Dougherty, an economics reporter at The New York Times, joins Nick to talk about his new book, “Golden Gates,” which tells stories of eviction, gentrification, an eroding middle class, a financial system that could be on the brink of driving families from their homes, and how to stop such a disastrous situation from happening. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.3	A thrilling. Welcome to Inside the Hive. I'm your host Nick Bilton. So this is without question
0:38.2	been one of the most insane intense weeks of my career and probably my life as a citizen it is
0:46.3	astounding to see the degree to which coronavirus has essentially shut down the world and continues to do so.
0:55.8	Our show this week is not about the coronavirus.
0:57.9	I recorded this show last week with Connor Doherty, who is an economics reporter at the
1:02.1	New York Times and has an amazing new
1:04.0	book out called Golden Gates which looks at the housing crisis in the United States and
1:08.0	I do hope you listen through to the whole thing. I just wanted to do a little
1:12.4	PSA here. I will be having a
1:14.7	guest on possibly two guests next week to talk about the coronavirus and how this
1:18.9	is going to spread even further. I know between now and a week from now is essentially a thousand years and with the speed with which this thing is spreading and taking over the world.
1:29.0	My guest next week will be Scott Burns who wrote the movie Contagion has done a tremendous
1:35.4	amount of research into the way pandemics spread globally and speaks to folks at the
1:42.0	WHO and CDC and so on and hopefully we'll bring on a scientist to join him
1:47.6	So if you have any questions you'd like me to ask reach out on Twitter at Nick Bilton, you know, let me know anything it is that you want me to ask him and we'll be able to discuss next week.
1:59.0	For people that are looking for more information on the coronavirus, I urge you to go and listen to Sam Harris's podcast. It's an excellent podcast. He has two this week about the coronavirus. There's plenty of other great information out there. Don't follow the most dramatic news sources. Go online and find people who are doctors who are scientists who study epidemiology and follow them and listen to what they have to say it will you know save you a lot
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