How did America's housing crisis get so bad, and what can be done about it? Housing policy expert Jenny Schuetz of the Brookings Institute joins the show to discuss. We chat about how exclusionary zoning makes housing shortages worse, why overly-long approval processes might be an even bigger factor than zoning, and how the political dynamics within different neighborhoods of big cities make it difficult to change policy.

Further Reading: Gentle Density - https://www.brookings.edu/research/gentle-density-can-save-our-neighborhoods/

Golden Gates - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/585765/golden-gates-by-conor-dougherty/

Who Participates in Local Government? - https://open.bu.edu/handle/2144/34276

Zoning Rules! - https://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?id=1190

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