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"Who’s Responsible for the Housing Crisis?
Jerusalem Demsas
Americans love local government. In a December 2023 Pew Research Center
survey, 61 percent of respondents had a favorable view of their local
government, whereas 77 percent had an unfavorable view of the federal
government.
But behind this veneer of goodwill is a disturbing truth: Local
government is driving a housing crisis that is raising rents, lowering
economic mobility and productivity, and negatively impacting wages.
Today’s episode of Good on Paper is a little different from others. It
features two guests, and it coincides with the release of On the Housing
Crisis: Land, Development, Democracy, a collection of my reporting for
The Atlantic chronicling the causes of the housing crisis and
identifying the structural problems in local democracy at its root.
I’m joined by the Atlantic deputy executive editor Yoni Appelbaum and
the Yale Law professor David Schleicher to discuss how American housing
markets broke.
“The problem internal to local government is that we have very little
capacity to control local government, particularly as local governments
are bigger than the neighborhood or town size,” Schleicher explains.
“And the basic reason is that we don’t know anything about it. If you
ask yourself, dear listener, who serves on your county commission or who
the local comptroller is, odds are, unless you’re a weirdo—possibly a
weirdo who listens to this podcast—you have no idea.”"
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2024/09/housing-crisis-local-government/679670/