Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 12 hours ago

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In this excerpt from the 2024 episode of Econ 102, Noah Smith and Erik Tornberg discuss the economic and social forces shaping cities, covering topics such as policing and crime rates, housing affordability, bohemian tech culture, regulation, crime perception, socio-economic challenges, street-level disorder, property crime, homelessness, and future economic trends.

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TIMESTAMPS:
(00:00) Intro
(00:20) Impact of crime on urban housing
(01:11) Rise of the tech bohemian culture
(03:44) Crime statistics and public perception
(06:21) Homelessness and urban disorder
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(10:24) Outro