My name is Gautam Iyer, and I’m the host of Rest Assured, a podcast generally about the San Francisco Bay Area’s housing crisis.

 

After finishing the history of the housing crisis on the last episode, this episode takes a stab at explaining the current state of the housing crisis, including a review of the history, a primer on the relevant parties, and a discussion of some policy solutions. This is a long one, but the beginning recaps the previous three episodes, and I get a lot of help from LA Times reporter Liam Dillon, who’s smarter than me and knows more about this stuff than I do. On the next episode, I finally get to the Mountain View part of this podcast, something that I’ve been promising to do for five episodes now. Anywho, enjoy and hopefully learn something.

 

Thank you to Duke University's Kenan Institute for Ethics for giving me the opportunity to pursue this project. 

 

Credit and additional thanks to:

Liam Dillon, Alex Nuñez, Emily Ramos, Lenny Siegel, and Pardis Beikzadeh for sharing their housing knowledge with me.

KTVU Fox 2 for the news clips in the intro.

The California Apartment Association for their advertisement, via youtube.

Fatcat beats (yes, Fatcat beats) on Youtube for the intro and outro music.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLWKQpphd7k

Kevin MacLeod for several pieces of music that were used on this episode and that will be used on future episodes.Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License 

Source/artist: https://incompetech.com/

Acid Trumpet by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3340-acid-trumpet

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Freesound.org for the several sound effects that you heard.

And the many others who made this possible.