The Roots of America's Housing Crisis
The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour
Hillsdale College
4.8 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Guests: Richard Samuelson & James S. Burling
Host Scot Bertram talks with Richard Samuelson, associate professor of government at Hillsdale College's Washington, D.C., campus, about the 250th anniversary of the First Continental Congress. And James S. Burling, vice president for Legal Affairs at Pacific Legal Foundation, explains how various government interventions created America's worsening housing crisis as laid out in his new book Nowhere to Live: The Hidden Story of America's Housing Crisis.
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| 0:00.0 | From the historic campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, where the good, the true, and the beautiful are taught, nurtured, and honored, this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country. |
| 0:25.1 | The percentage of homelessness is higher than it's ever been and is more visible than it's ever been. |
| 0:31.1 | Yes, during the Great Depression, we have the Hooverville, the city's on the edge, if you will. |
| 0:36.8 | The sheer numbers are so much greater. The last |
| 0:40.1 | count of homelessness found over 650,000 people that were unsheltered. This is your host, Scott |
| 0:47.3 | Bertram. Welcome to the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, part of the Hillsdale College Podcast Network. |
| 0:55.5 | That was Jim Burling, |
| 1:01.2 | vice president of legal affairs at the Pacific Legal Foundation, and author of the recent book Nowhere to Live, the Hidden Story of America's Housing Crisis. We talk in depth with James about |
| 1:07.5 | that book a little bit later on in today's program. First, we're joined by |
| 1:11.5 | Dr. Richard Samuelson. He is Associate Professor of Government at Hillsdale's Washington, D.C. campus. |
| 1:17.4 | Dr. Samuelson, thanks so much for joining us. Thank you very much for having me. It's good to be here. |
| 1:21.2 | chatting today about the First Continental Congress, the 250th anniversary. First Continental Congress from September 5th through October 26th of 1774. |
| 1:34.2 | And I guess let's begin by what led to this, right? |
| 1:38.8 | Before the First Continental Congress, what kind of legislative bodies existed in the colonies or between the |
| 1:45.0 | colonies? How was government set up? Well, you're asking two different questions, right? The only |
| 1:50.8 | legislative bodies, elected legislative bodies in the Americas before the American Revolution |
| 1:56.6 | were the ones in the British American colonies, including those, by the way, that did not rebel in the Caribbean, et cetera. |
| 2:04.1 | And that set them apart. |
| 2:05.9 | The colonists all had elected government. |
| 2:07.6 | They were very familiar with it. |
| 2:08.7 | They were very used to it. |
| 2:09.8 | And much higher numbers of adults, adult males, voted than did in England, which created a real difference. |
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