Housing & the Pandemic

Whether you are a renter or a homeowner, housing is probably your largest single expense and maybe one of your biggest stress points. The strain of meeting rising housing costs has been a hot topic ever since the great recession, but since the pandemic started, things have only gotten more difficult. In this inaugural episode of Bottom Lines Top Dollars, the Ladies Who Crunch talk about how the pandemic has affected the economics of housing. Issues discussed include rent strikes, housing bubbles, how interest rates and housing supply has caused a spike in the price of homes, big-city exoduses as jobs move online, small-town and suburban booms, and utopian land projects. 

The Ladies Who Crunch are Hadassah Damien and Laura Boo. More information about us and this podcast can be found at ladieswhocrunch.club. 

Special thanks to our researchers Ariel Federow and Handy Levine.