Who's to Blame for the Homelessness Crisis? (w/ Jerusalem Demsas) | The Next Level

[@marcosginestra6699]

Much appreciated break from Trump and GOP news, and a fantastic guest.

[@laurenbeckerle7977]

We live in Santa Clara county. Every time I open the nextdoor app there’s probably a dozen ppl complaining about new homes being built. The attitude of “I got lucky and got my house, screw the next guy.” The NIMBY ppl are outta control.

[@robinstevenson6690]

Glad to see The Bulwark discussing a topic such as ending homelessness! The U.S. now has and will continue to have the wealth required to ensure a home for all Americans.

[@TisDana]

Excellent episode! Jerusalem lays out the dilemma very well. The first time I ever heard “Not in my backyard” was George Carlin. It’s certainly a thing.

[@TheDjerkovic]

Really informative. Rotating between expert and culture guest might be the way.

[@tarabartee3424]

I am learning so much about this topic. More of this please.

[@paulzikang]

Thank you! This was the best and most informative thing I've ever heard discussing homelessness.

[@Reldas]

I love Jerusalem!! I live in downtown Houston and the homeless population has exploded in the last decade. But I'm a college prof who can't afford to buy downtown because the prices are ridiculous. A 2br 2ba condo is $500k 🙃

[@dianahess6684]

Great discussion with lots of pertinent info explored. As one of many looking for affordable rental housing in the US, it was depressing but predictable that this problem is so serious and entrenched that there are no solutions in the foreseeable future. Sad but thanks for the tough love.

[@alexanderthompson4481]

Really appreciate the detailed policy discussion, particularly as a high-income person who’s dealing with sticker shock over Denver housing prices. The impact of limited housing stock is much worse for young people and those further down the economic scale. The fact is, we would all benefit from a less-punishing housing market. Among other things, I might be able to work part time or even (holy grail) retire some day instead of working until I die.

[@leesummers7461]

So good you guys. Thanks for this episode. Great guest...👍⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@TheQutapi]

I am hunting for more of Jerusalem’s content! Great show!

[@swimchic1239]

She has articles on The Atlantic

[@danielbackley9301]

The problem with public housing in Chicago was NOT the story that is told by activists. the reason that Cabrini -Green became a disaster was because the activists were listened to by the politicians who pandered to them and their demand that one could not throw out people who were engaged in criminal behavior or were living there illegally forgetting that the rest of the residents were deserving of a safe community. Also the lie that they were poorly constructed is one that needs to be debunked permantly as no building let alone a high rise could have stood so long or been so hard to demolish if improperly constructed . Example St. Louis had Igoo -Pruitt which was imploded because it was easier.

[@rikcoach1]

I would like tho hear thoughts about walkable neighborhoods with high density, ground level business’ with three to four level housing above them. Then mix with duplex, triplex and quadplex housing. Each neighborhood having a grocery store and plenty of restraints and safe streets.

[@erinc9672]

Dream come true. Where are these unicorns.

[@BWSC81]

Travesty that this episode isn't seeing views many of your other episodes see! I love the conversation on policy merit.

[@hellakitty2]

Great episode ! More uber smart and articulate Z folks please.

[@deecutrona8152]

Highly recommend the documentary ‘Push’ 2019.

[@joyfulmindstudio]

There is a lot to dispute in this stunningly simplistic analysis of the housing shortage we face in this country, with its impact on several of the greatest problems that we face today as a nation, from homelessness to the opioid epidemic to the racial wealth gap to environmental degradation to population aging to political sorting and polarization. One common thread runs through the entire shallow spiel: You treat housing as though it were a market, rather than a basic necessity of life, the provisioning of which requires a responsive mix of market- and non-market solutions and incentives, as is the case with healthcare. My eyes tell me there are three relatively young and intelligent individuals discussing the subject on the screen, but what I hear is the voice of Trump’s Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, advising federal workers affected by Trump’s 2019 government shutdown to take out bridge loans to cover their missing paychecks. Cake, anyone? It would take a few hours to give you all the feedback needed to correct the flawed conclusions your lame analysis produced, so instead I’ll just leave you with one data point to chew on, having to do with the enormous harm that private equity firms are doing to the cost of rental housing in major US cities. In recent years these firms have been broadly engaged in price fixing, through the use of a common software platform that provides real-time visibility to corporate landlords on rental stock availability and pricing across an entire metropolitan region. With this information at their disposal, on what is essentially a private commodities exchange, corporate landlords can synchronize their pricing decisions with those of their so-called “competitors,” without actually having to pick up the phone and break the law together. Thankfully, the Justice Department is investigating the company at the center of this scheme and, I hope, will act to curtail the blatantly illegal behavior this software facilitates. As for the housing shortage itself, since even young and smart Republicans seem to have no clue, I guess it will have to wait for another Democratic Congress and administration, led by another Obama-like figure, who has the courage and the nerve to treat affordable and stably priced housing as a core part of the social contract between the government and its citizens. This will soon become an urgent and insistent matter to address, as digital automation continues to roil the employment picture, and the environment triggers massive internal migration and devaluation of housing stock in threatened regions of the country. Big problems require, at a minimum, serious thought and deep analysis-commodities that were painfully missing from this lighthearted romp through the housing crisis: “the collegiate edition.” www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-realpage-rent-doj-investigation-antitrust

[@kathivy]

We have too many people on earth putting pressure on limited resources such as water. We need to gradually lower our population and deal with the difficulties of having an older population until it levels out. Allowing for more immigration into the U.S. would bring in a stream of younger people in the interim. I like that Jerusalem brings up cities that plan for high density housing initially rather than trying to change housing afterwards. People should have some assurance of the type of neighborhood in which they are making a big and perhaps permanent investment; that’s one reason that we have zoning laws.

[@joshhoobler5769]

Super informative!

[@debbiemontgomery5458]

Very interesting...educational.....quite a bit to think about....Jerusalem is great but she needs to slow down...I think she feels like she is on a debate stage.......Thank you for having this discussion

[@OdyTypeR]

Tim, if you're looking for a villain, (please note this is purely anectodal and is not meant to generalize a country/race/etc), but if you're looking for someone to blame with fewer caveats: On the last subdivision I helped build, out of the 40ish homes on the plat, 3 of them were purchased by Chinese investors whose strategy is to hold vacant, then resell "as new" on the flip. This is an individual case in the suburbs of Seattle, ymmv, and that's still just a small percentage overall, but for three well-off growing families, there's 12 bedrooms they missed out on for a couple years until they _actually_ make it onto the market as residences.

[@OdyTypeR]

Note: they're still contributing to the economy via property taxes, landscaping contracts, exchange rates, etc, it's not a _total_ negative, but they don't help the housing shortages much.

[@lhoward9593]

There are empty buildings in London as units are purchased by overseas investors.

[@RC-xs1qo]

great stuff ... can we all agree its the Millennials

[@highstreetjackmusic]

So, what about mental illness? A majority of the homeless people in my city do not appear to be lucid. Unless there is a way to address that problem, adding more houses seems pointless.

[@christophervaden5315]

There's a real question what's the cause and what's the effect. I've read recent articles suggesting that many people develop mental illness (and drug addictions) AFTER ending up out on the streets, not that pre-existing mental illness led to homelessness.

[@markgooch8278]

Kenyon College was the Lords and the Ladies and are now the Owls

[@johnbrandimore9011]

Tim: I need a bad guy. Guess who the bad guy is, Tim? Capitalism.

[@thomasd2444]

Allowing people to charter a For-Money-Profit firm (lending or producing or service providing) is not a bad thing. People need rules to act correctly. For-Money-Profit firms need rules because in the past many firms acted incorrectly

[@johnbrandimore9011]

@@thomasd2444 but according to conservatives for the past 40+ years any rules on Capitalism is Bolshevik Socialism.

[@johnbrandimore9011]

@@thomasd2444 So you agree that Capitalism needs fetters?

[@TisDana]

@@thomasd2444 because people/firms won’t “do the right thing” on their own in general

[@dancahill9585]

When I hear this, I think of Winston Churchill's quote about Democracy. "It's the worst system out there, except for all the others".

[@clairejeannette8454]

Thanks Jerusalem. I know it’s a lot to ask but could you (and Ezra Klein) work to speak a little more slowly? I hear that debaters learn to cram in more words per minute but I, for one, get frustrated trying to track WHAT I REALLY WANT TO HEAR!

[@superclaymaster]

She is getting pretty fast expressing herself. You can change the playback speed in your settings.

[@chichi3701]

Just a suggestion, you can adjust the settings so that your video plays at a slower pace. That helps with fast talkative people.

[@SusanBebout]

I know this very intelligent young woman has heard this before: SLOW DOWN! I get a headache trying to think through her logic when she's speeding at 90mph. Does intelligence insecurity cause this? Surely not- as a debate master.

[@THATBOISHAD]

She talks too fast. It's unfortunate because what she has to say is important.

[@ksea9146]

Like right? It's like I have to raise my eyebrows that someone, like, so clearly educated, can, like, only repeat, like, stupid words.

[@ashantigardner7804]

pro tip: use the captions or slow the video speed

[@ksea9146]

pro tip: A speaker wants his/her message to resonate, listen back, take in the feedback, practice and learn and grow. Oh, and don't foist the delivery issues onto the listeners.

[@todhagan2966]

Yes she talks fast, so instead of listening at my usual 1.75x or 2x I listened at 1.25x.