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Americans love local government. In a December 2023 Pew Research survey (pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/04/11/americans-rate-their-federal-state-and-local-governments-less-positively-than-a-few-years-ago) , 61 percent of respondents had a favorable view of their local government while 77 percent had an unfavorable view of the federal government. But behind this veneer of goodwill is a disturbing truth: Local government is driving a housing crisis that is raising rents, lowering economic mobility and productivity, and negatively impacting wages.
Host Jerusalem Demsas talks to Atlantic deputy executive editor Yoni Appelbaum (theatlantic.com/author/yoni-appelbaum) and Yale Law professor David Schleicher (https://law.yale.edu/david-n-schleicher) about how local government is fueling the housing crisis.
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Americans love local government. In a December 2023 Pew Research survey (pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/04/11/americans-rate-their-federal-state-and-local-governments-less-positively-than-a-few-years-ago) , 61 percent of respondents had a favorable view of their local government while 77 percent had an unfavorable view of the federal government. But behind this veneer of goodwill is a disturbing truth: Local government is driving a housing crisis that is raising rents, lowering economic mobility and productivity, and negatively impacting wages.
Host Jerusalem Demsas talks to Atlantic deputy executive editor Yoni Appelbaum (theatlantic.com/author/yoni-appelbaum) and Yale Law professor David Schleicher (https://law.yale.edu/david-n-schleicher) about how local government is fueling the housing crisis.
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