Episode description
Episode description
Air Date 12/23/2023
The housing crisis is at a worse point than at any time in recent history. Solutions are available and require political will to bring into reality but because the problem is now so widespread, we may actually be able to take action that would have been untenable before.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: Housing is a Moral Issue w Shaun Donovan - Future Hindsight - Air Date 12-7-23
Shaun Donovan is the CEO and President of Enterprise Community Partners. We discuss how the deeply entrenched housing crisis has become worse in recent years and the multiple strategies to make home and community places of pride, power, and belonging.
On this week’s show, Fanta — a reporter for WNYC’s Radio Rookies — speaks with residents, organizers and officials as she tries to find out what this program means for families like hers.
Ch. 3: Biden In Trouble With Voters Over Inequality And Housing - The Majority Report - Air Date 11-28-23
President Joe Biden’s approval ratings surrounding the economy are not good! What, if anything, can Biden and the Democrat do to improve on those poll numbers (maybe…run on something? Anything?)
Ch. 4: Housing is a Moral Issue w Shaun Donovan Part 2 - Future Hindsight - Air Date 12-7-23
Ch. 6: Why The US Is Failing At Housing And How To Fix It - The Majority Report - Air Date 7-9-23
Rachel Cohen describes how the US housing crisis came to be and how it can be solved.
Ch. 7: Housing is a Moral Issue w Shaun Donovan Part 3 - Future Hindsight - Air Date 12-7-23
Is Paris more gentrified than New York? Gentrification is the process where beloved cities & towns price out residents with rents ‘too damn high’ to pay & failing infrastructure.
MEMBERS-ONLY BONUS CLIP(S)
Ch. 10: How to build beautiful social housing in a crisis - Channel 4 News - 9-7-23
The architect Peter Barber has been winning awards for turning tiny patches of land into innovative estates and houses, designed not just to be beautiful – but to foster a sense of community too.
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 11: Final comments on why North America Can't Build Nice Apartments
Bonus: Why North America Can't Build Nice Apartments (because of one rule)
MUSIC (Blue Dot Sessions)
SHOW IMAGE:
Description: Photograph of newly built, colorful single-family row houses.
Credit: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development archive, License: Public Domain
Produced by Jay! Tomlinson
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