Why Is Housing So Expensive In America? with Jenny Schuetz

Factually! with Adam Conover

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4.4 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Why is housing so expensive, when other human needs like food are relatively cheap? Brookings Senior Fellow and author of Fixer-Upper, Jenny Schuetz, joins Adam to explain why our entire system is tilted to protect wealth rather than provide housing, and how we can change the system to fix that. Pick up her book at http://factuallypod.com/books Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	This is a head gum podcast.
0:04.0	I don't know the truth.
0:08.0	I don't know the way.
0:10.0	I don't know what to think.
0:13.0	I don't know what to say.
0:16.0	You have to get to my heart.
0:19.0	You have to keep.
0:22.0	I don't know anything.
0:28.0	Hello, everyone. Welcome to Factually.
0:30.0	I'm Adam Connover.
0:32.0	Thank you for joining me once again as I talk to an amazing expert about all the incredible things they know that I don't know that you might not know.
0:37.0	We're going to have an incredible time getting our minds blown together.
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