Ep 51: The Housing Monster w/ Samuel Stein

The Antifada

Sean KB and AP Andy

Music, Arts

4.2 • 970 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2019

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Samuel Stein, author of 'Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State' from Verso Books, comes on the pod to explain why neoliberalism will have us all living in pods if we don't do something about the global housing crisis.

We discuss the rise of the FIRE sector. We demystify the concept of gentrification. We isolate the fundamental contradictions of housing as a commodity. We unpack the ways in which even the most well-meaning progressive politicians and planners are utterly constrained by the system itself.

And, as is our want, we take a profound plunge into how workers have organized for the right to housing in the past and how we might ultimately fight to slay the housing monster.

Bonus on housing horror stories and other ephemera with Sam later this week! Become a at patron at www.patreon.com/theantifada

Follow Samuel Stein: @SamuelBStein

Read his great takedown of Hudson Yards: http://bit.ly/2JEGgAA

Buy the concise and fantastic 'Capital City' - part of the Jacobin Series from Verso: https://www.versobooks.com/books/2870-capital-city

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and
0:05.0	welcome to the Anti Bata where unrest is best.
0:10.0	I'm Jamie Peck.
0:11.0	I'm Sean Kebi. And A. B. Andy is still somewhere. We're not sure. He's not in Cuba anymore. He's gone off to an undisclosed location. I think he might have got a tip on where the best dumpster treats are located in the country.
0:27.0	Perhaps somewhere in the Pacific Northwest.
0:29.0	Yeah, so he's still off on his little Rum Springer journey.
0:32.0	That's right. Every Mapache has to go on a Rum Springs. off on his little rum springer journey.
0:32.6	That's right.
0:33.0	Every mepache has to go on a rum springer.
0:35.6	And he may or may not come back,
0:37.3	depending on what he finds in the outside world.
0:39.0	Indeed, maybe he'll come back with a congresswoman girlfriend.
0:41.6	Who knows? So our guest today is Samuel Stein he is a
0:46.7	PhD candidate at the cune that is City University of New York Earth Earth Sciences Department, and author of the book,
0:55.4	Capital City, Gentrification and the real estate state. Out now on Verso Books.
1:00.8	Thank you very much.
1:02.8	Now I love how you come out of the Cuny Earth Sciences Department.
1:07.6	It sounds so stemmy.
1:09.7	So what is it, science, technology, engineering, and math? That that's right that's what I'm all
1:14.1	right yeah but yeah your book is not it's not all like algorithms and it's not about
1:19.4	like material science tell us a little bit about this department and why you seem like a
1:23.7	stem guy but you're not. I think the book is pure science I'd say. The science of
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