What Next - Can the Feds Lower Your Rent?
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Housing prices have skyrocketed, from the usual hot spots in New York and San Francisco, out to the until-recently-affordable places like Boise, Idaho and Charlotte, North Carolina.
Sen. Brian Schatz proposed an $85 million program to entice cities and suburbs to enact “fair housing policies,” but is that enough to address a nationwide problem?
Guest: Henry Grabar, Slate writer and author of Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World.
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| 0:00.0 | If you've ever found blood in the bathroom sink after brushing, you're not alone. |
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| 0:34.2 | Picture Hawaii, blue skies, cool breeze, an average day time winter temperature of 78 degrees. |
| 0:42.8 | Would you want to live there? |
| 0:44.6 | Turns out you're not alone. |
| 0:46.6 | Nimbi, or not in my backyard. |
| 0:49.8 | It's a phrase that's not unique to Hawaii. |
| 0:52.1 | The experts are worried that it could be a massive barrier to solving our affordable |
| 0:56.2 | housing crisis. |
| 0:57.7 | As of December 2021, the median cost of a Hana Lulu home is just over a million dollars. |
| 1:04.6 | That's a 22% bump from the year before. |
| 1:08.5 | So it's probably safe to say that number has only gone up. |
| 1:15.0 | According to Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii, skyrocketing home prices and the need for affordable |
| 1:21.3 | housing isn't just a problem in his home state. |
| 1:25.8 | But I think the change now is that it's not just San Francisco and Hana Lulu and New |
| 1:30.5 | York City and a few at Seattle and a few other places that are experiencing a shortage of |
| 1:36.2 | housing, it's every place across the country. |
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