The Affordable Housing Crisis with Ned Resnikoff
Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast
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The Distinction in Urban Politics
In places like california, certainly, the reason why it persists is because, again, it seems nominally fairly progressive. The people who show up to these meetings are disproportionately white, disproportionely older, and by a ver very wide margin, disproportionately home owners. Distinction in this stuff, and in urban politics particularly, is just enormous, because they literally have opposite material interests. If housing prices go down, that's good for renters, bad for cer and home owners. In huge swats america, there's not a lot of rental housing, right? Not not a ton of rental housing in rural America, there's some,. Trail parks and things like that,
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