What the housing crisis means for the climate

Future Perfect

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Tech News, News

4.5 • 622 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Dylan Matthews sits down with housing policy experts and advocates Leonora Camner and Annie Fryman to discuss California’s housing crisis, climate catastrophe, and how more sustainable land use policy could help both. Featuring: Leonora Camner (@CamnerLeonora), executive director, Abundant Housing LA Annie Fryman (@anniefryman), housing policy lead for California State Senator Scott Wiener Host: Dylan Matthews, senior correspondent, Vox More to explore: Subscribe to Vox’s Future Perfect newsletter, which breaks down the big, complicated problems the world faces and the most efficient ways to solve them. Credits: Producer/Editor: Jackson Bierfeldt Executive Producer: Liz Nelson About Vox: Vox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Please consider making a contribution to Vox to support this show: bit.ly/givepodcasts. Your support will help us keep having ambitious conversations about big ideas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	avoiding your unfinished home projects because you're not sure where to start.
0:04.6	Thumbtack knows homes, so you don't have to.
0:07.6	Don't know the difference between matte paint finish and satin,
0:10.9	or what that clunking sound from your dryer is.
0:13.9	With Thumbtack, you don't have to be a home pro.
0:16.6	You just have to hire one.
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0:23.7	Download today.
0:26.3	You know, too many people are homeless and too many people are dying because they don't have a home.
0:31.9	Housing is the backbone for public health.
0:33.9	Housing is the backbone for education.
0:35.9	Housing is the backbone for broad, like social and community health.
0:39.3	We could start thinking more about housing as a right
0:43.3	and that everybody needs housing fundamentally to live.
0:47.3	We have climate refugees in our own state.
0:50.3	Individual people can do a lot to support housing and inclusive neighborhoods where they live.
0:59.1	From the Vox Media Podcast Network, this is a special bonus episode of Future Perfect.
1:04.8	I'm your co-host, Dylan Matthews.
1:08.2	Future Perfect is all about using big ideas and new technologies to build a better, more sustainable tomorrow.
1:14.6	And there are few areas of life that need as much improvement as our housing.
1:19.6	Rents are skyrocketing. COVID-19 is threatening to push millions of renters from their homes,
1:25.6	and emissions from our houses and our commutes
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