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Control What You Can Control (opens the original)
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This week we sat down with Bale Dalton, the Democratic nominee in Florida’s 7th, a Navy helicopter pilot who went on to run a 16,000-person workforce as NASA’s chief of staff. We recorded a couple of days after Republican primary voters fired Cory Mills, and Bale’s theory of the general election against Ryan Elijah is simple: nobody in this district cares about labels. They care that 45,000 families here just lost their health insurance entirely when Congress let the ACA subsidies expire, and th
Diagnosing the Affordability Crisis (opens the original)
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This week we sat down with New York State Senator Andrew Gounardes, who represents the 26th District in Brooklyn and chairs the Senate’s Budget and Revenue Committee. What stuck with us is his diagnosis of the diagnosis. Every politician has learned to say “affordability.” It’s been poll tested, it passed every focus group, and as Andrew puts it, tattoo it on your forehead. Almost nobody has done the harder work of asking why a specific bill is too high for a specific family. He knows because he
From Second Mortgages to Fortified Roofs (opens the original)
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This week we did something a little different and brought on two guests: Vice Mayor Kesha Hodge Washington of Phoenix and Louisiana State Senator Royce Duplessis of New Orleans. They co-chair the NewDEAL Forum Housing Task Force , which just released its culminating report on what state and local leaders are actually doing about housing costs. Not white-paper theater, actual programs with budgets attached. What I appreciated most is that neither of them talks about housing like an abstraction. K
From “First They Ignore You” to “Everybody Loves It” (opens the original)
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Hi everyone, this week Gary and I talked with Matthew Lewis, communications director at California YIMBY , about why the hard part of the housing fight isn’t the economics but getting people to believe things that are true. We get into why housing and transportation are really one fight, why he thinks AARP were the original YIMBYs, and how bad-faith actors on both the left and right exploit the collapse of local news to lie about bills like SB 79. His bottom line is stubbornly hopeful: SB 79 too
From Book Reports to Building Booms (opens the original)
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California just had the biggest year for housing reform in its modern history. On this episode of The Rebuild, Tahra Hoops and Gary Winslett talk with Nolan Gray of California YIMBY about what actually changed: a full CEQA exemption for infill housing and SB 79's statewide upzoning near transit. Gray, a city planner and the author of Arbitrary Lines , argues that the hard part now is feasibility, and that legalizing the condo is the next front in the fight for homeownership. The conversation run
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