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Why Democrats Won't Fix The Housing Crisis (w/ David Fields)

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Bad Faith

Chapo, Bernie, Left, Leftism, Socialism, Socialist, Berniesanders, Comedy, Democrat, News, Politics

4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Political economist David Fields joins Bad Faith for a conversation that goes beyond housing policy to unpack the very roots of why the Democratic Party seems unable to provide basic improvements for working people -- even when they're in power. He clarifies the YIMBY vs. NIMBY debate, how YIMBYism has been appropriated by corporate developers, and how false economic narratives (e.g. the supply/demand curve) have been weaponized to justify real-estate lobby-approved solutions to the housing crisis.

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Produced by Armand Aviram.

Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).

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0:00.0

Democrats and Republicans are two sides of the same Wall Street coin.

0:05.1

It's like, do you want to be exploited with a nice happy face and a little marshally attention

0:10.5

to social causes or do you want the clown working in McDonald's with fake advertising?

0:17.0

Yeah, those are the options. Yeah. So, All right, I'm so glad to be joined by David Field.

0:54.0

He's an independent political economist from Utah

0:57.0

whose research is rooted in housing and community planning.

1:00.4

Welcome to Bad Faith.

1:01.6

Thanks so much for having me.

1:03.2

It's great to be here.

1:04.7

So David, you're yet another guest that I've

1:07.3

poached over from Macro and Cheese.

1:09.0

So many apologies for that.

1:10.8

And I do want to continue the conversation

1:12.4

that you were having over there. Strong recommend. for that

1:15.0

and I do want to continue the conversation that you're having over there.

1:16.0

Strong recommend if you're not already listening to macrom and cheese that you absolutely should.

1:18.0

And the conversation in the context of that podcast

1:21.0

is about housing policy.

1:22.0

YMBI is and nimbism and Nmbiism.

1:23.7

And I kind of want to ask you what the left

1:26.6

should be doing and thinking about

1:28.3

in terms of housing policy in the middle of a political cycle

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