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.

 

This episode is (finally!) the last of series of three episodes that are dedicated to the history of the housing crisis in California and in the Bay Area. This time, I talk at length about California housing history from the 80s until the present day, focusing on a number of topics, including the rise of homelessness nationally and in the Bay Area. I also discuss rent control, the great inversion, the Ellis Act, the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, and the state of the construction industry. Thanks for sticking with me thus far. On the next episode, I start with a brief recap of all of the history episodes, when you inevitably get lost or bogged down.

 

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

 

Credit and additional thanks to:

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.

Liam Dillon, Alex Nuñez, and Emily Ramos for sharing their knowledge of housing affordability issues with me.

And the many others who made this possible.