Crazy Town4 Kesä 2025

Who Can Fix the Housing Crisis - NYT Pundits, German Shepherds, or Bilbo Baggins?

Jason, Rob, and Asher are taking out a huge, unaffordable mortgage on the housing crisis. What’s behind the shortage in housing? Why is it that no one, except canine Tik Tok influencers with billion-dollar bank accounts, can afford to own a home? While mainstream pundits press for an energy-blind buildout of desert sprawl and gleaming towers of glass and steel, we propose a surprising change of course inspired by little people with hairy feet. Originally recorded on 5/21/25.

Warning: This podcast occasionally uses spicy language.

Sources/Links/Notes:

The story of Gunther, the world's most moneyed canine.
You can't make this stuff up: Gunther offers to buy Nicholas Cage's island.
David Wessel, "Where do the estimates of a 'housing shortage' come from?," Brookings Institute, October 21, 2024.
Alex Fitzpatrick and Alice Feng, "Americans' average daily travel distance, mapped," Axios, March 24, 2024.
Jon Gertner, "America Is on Fire, Says One Climate Writer. Should You Flee?," New York Times, March 22, 2024.
U.S. News and World Report, "Fastest-Growing Places in the U.S. in 2025-2026."

Good Ideas for Addressing the Housing Crisis:

Jason Bradford, "Growing the Shire, Not the 'Burb: Facing the Housing Crisis with Ecological Sanity," Resilience, May 27, 2025.
Global Ecovillage Network
Nate Hagens, "Alexis Zeigler — Living Without Fossil Fuels: How Living Energy Farm Created a Comfortable Off-Grid Lifestyle," The Great Simplification, April 9, 2025.

Energy-Blind Non-Solutions for the Housing Crisis:

Conor Dougherty, "Why America Should Sprawl," New York Times, April 10, 2025.
Binyamin Applebaum, "Build Homes on Federal Land," New York Times, April 15, 2025.
Ezra Klein, "Abundance and the Left," The Ezra Klein Show, April 29, 2025.
Samuel Moyn, "Can Democrats Learn to Dream Big Again?," New York Times, March 18, 2025.
Tyler Cowen, "Ezra Klein on the Abundance Agenda (Ep. 236)" Conversations with Tyler, March 7, 2025.

Related Episode(s) of Crazy Town:

Episode 37. Discounting the Future and Climate Chaos, or… the Story of the Dueling Economists

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