Hello everybody, and welcome (back) to Notes from the Front!
In this episode, I sat down with Judge Glock, Director of Research at the Manhattan Institute, to dig into the root causes of America’s housing crisis — from restrictive zoning to the fires that destroyed tens of thousands of apartments in the 1970s Bronx, to what’s coming next for New York City.
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:00 The #1 barrier to housing: zoning
05:30 Why cities welcome data centers but fight housing
08:00 Environmental regulations and the sprawl problem
12:00 Rent control: what economists actually agree on
18:00 The difference between rent control and rent stabilization
24:00 The 1970s Bronx fires — what really happened
32:00 New York’s new mayor and the rent freeze
38:00 The case against public housing
46:00 Ghost apartments and landlord bankruptcies
56:00 Who gets hurt most by rent control
1:06:00 The case for renting over owning
1:10:00 Judge’s 3-point plan if he were Mayor of NYC
1:17:00 Housing as a national political issue
Books:
The Fires: How a Computer Formula, Big Ideas, and the Best of Intentions Burned Down New York City by Joe Flood – http://bit.ly/48wSHc7
Public Housing That Worked by Nicholas Dagen Bloom — https://bit.ly/47FvWma
Judge’s Articles:
“Two Cheers for Zoning” — https://bit.ly/4tnEVk6
Is There a Dumber Housing Policy Than Rent Control? — https://bit.ly/4viNoXQ
Laws Protecting Renters Hurt Renters — https://bit.ly/4sTVJzh
The Asian-American Landlord Movement —https://bit.ly/3On2D12
Find Judge Glock: https://manhattan.institute/person/judge-glock
Contact Michelle: michelle@notesfromthefront.com
