I'm Robbie Gupta and this is Regressives, a limited series and show from The Lost

Debate that takes a lens on progressive thinking and ideas to say, hey, within this tent,

are there any things we could be doing differently or better? And today's episode is a really

important one. We're speaking with Connor Doherty.

He's an economics reporter at the New York Times and an author of the book, Golden

Gates, The Housing Crisis and a Reckoning for the American Dream.

I love this book.

He takes a look at the Bay Area and says, hey, why don't we have more housing density in this

city and in other American cities around the

country?

This is about so much more than any one area.

And what he does is challenge progressives to think more about increasing housing stock,

increasing the supply of housing so that we could drive down the prices, especially for the

most vulnerable.

Connor, welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me.

Well, Connor, before we started taping, you were saying to me that you think that housing may be the area where progressives,

where there's a bigger gap between progressive self-perception and their actual actions.

And so, why don't we start there?

Why is that the case?

I think that that the case?

I think that's the case because housing cuts to so many different aspects of our life, our society, our civilization, that it's very, very hard to reduce to partisan terms.

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