What's Driving the Housing Crisis?

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The author has been studying the housing crisis for about a decade. She says there are two really complicated markets in America, healthcare market and housing market. The narrative is so strong and moving that it crosses over what we normally expect from a nonfiction work," she said.

Pulitzer Prize winning sociologist, professor at Princeton University and author of the book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, Matthew Desmond joins Adam this week to discuss the physical effects poverty has on the people living in it, the lack of a national conversation about the housing crisis, and how the "American Dream" story is hurting us. 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.