What Next - Can the Feds Lower Your Rent?
What Next | Daily News and Analysis
Slate Podcasts
4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
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.
If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Say hello to Muddybody, the period underwear that actually works. |
| 0:06.1 | Featuring a leak proof absorbent lining, their comfy styles feel just like your regular |
| 0:10.9 | underwear, and come in a range of sizes, styles and absorbent seas to suit everybody. |
| 0:17.4 | Periods, pee and sweat shouldn't control your day. |
| 0:19.9 | With Muddybody, you can do what you love without worrying about leaks. |
| 0:23.9 | Muddybody, life changing period underwear. |
| 0:26.8 | To shop now, visit Muddybody.com. |
| 0:56.8 | It could be a massive barrier to solving our affordable housing crisis. |
| 1:00.7 | As of December 2021, the median cost of a Hana Lulu home is just over a million dollars. |
| 1:07.6 | That's a 22% bump from the year before. |
| 1:11.6 | So it's probably safe to say that number has only gone up. |
| 1:18.1 | According to Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii, skyrocketing home prices and the need for affordable |
| 1:24.4 | housing, is it just a problem in his home state? |
| 1:28.8 | But I think the change now is that it's not just San Francisco and Hana Lulu at New |
| 1:33.6 | York City and a few at Seattle and a few other places that are experiencing a shortage |
| 1:39.2 | of housing, it's every place across the country. |
| 1:42.2 | So this is a national issue whether we like it or not. |
| 1:46.2 | Last year, Schatz inserted a so-called Yimbi grant program into a massive house appropriations |
| 1:52.8 | bill. |
| 1:53.8 | That program is supposed to be rolled out in the coming months. |
| 1:57.5 | Yimbi stands for yes in my backyard, in contrast to the perhaps better known, Nimbi, or |
| 2:05.1 | not in my backyard. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Slate Podcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Slate Podcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

