Renter's Mobilization - Is That Really Happening?

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Housing has been a sacred cow in California politics for over 40 years. But now it is finally something that's being talked about again. We spend way more on mortgage subsidies, like the mortgage interest reduction than we do on direct housing assistance to needy people. And this is where the politics get really tricky because a lot of our democratic leadership are high cost cities.

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.