Rachel Cohen, who covers domestic social policy for Vox, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how tiny homes serve the “housing first” idea – and to talk about if these dwellings are just putting a band aid on the issue.
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It’s Time To Renovate How We Build Houses
Diana Lind is a housing fellow at the global nonprofit NewCities, and she joins us to talk about rethinking how and where we live, why homeownership shouldn’t be the most prominent way to create wealth, and how to find new ways to create community.
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Why Renters Can’t Afford Rent
Bryce Covert joins us to talk about how our current affordable-housing crisis came to be.
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How America Became Segregated
Richard Rothstein of the Economic Policy Institute joins us to talk about the cumulative impact of racial zoning policies.
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Why Many Americans Remain Homeless
NPR reporter Laura Sullivan joins us to talk about why so many Americans – including many Texans – remain homeless despite these efforts.
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The Self-Segregation Of White America
Vox reporter Alvin Chang joins us to talk about why white Americans who say they want to live in diverse neighborhoods still end up living in traditionally white areas.
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Texas’ Housing Boom
We’ll talk this hour with “Texas Monthly” senior editor John Nova Lomax, whose November cover story is “The Great Texas Housing Boom.”
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