UCLA Housing Voice

Ep 102: Minimum Standards vs. Affordability with Benjamin Schneider (Incentives Series pt. 5)


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We’ve been grappling with trade-offs between stricter building codes and declining affordability for over 100 years. Benjamin Schneider helps us trace the history. This is part 5 of our series on misaligned incentives in housing policy.

Show notes:

  • Schneider, B. (2025). The Unfinished Metropolis: Igniting the City-Building Revolution. Island Press.
  • Schneider, B. (2025 September 22). 106 Years Ago She Predicted Today’s Housing Crisis. What if we’d Listened? Planetizen. 
  • Wood, E. E. (1919). The Housing of the Unskilled Wage Earner: America's Next Problem. The MacMillan Company.
  • Riis, J. A. (1890). How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York. Charles Scribner’s Sons.
  • A brief history of tenements in the US.
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