Who's Responsible for the Housing Crisis?
Briefly

The housing crisis is an economic, political, and democratic crisis that has spread from superstar cities like San Francisco and Boston to now impacting every state in the country. Shelter is a fundamental need. But also, where you live determines so much-about whether or not you'll go to a good school or go to college; about your health, since there's so much local variation with things like air quality and access to services.
The problem internal to local government is that we have very little capacity to control local government, particularly as local governments are bigger than the neighborhood or town size. And the basic reason is that we don't know anything about it. If you ask yourself, dear listener, who serves on your county commission or who the local comptroller is, odds are, unless you're a weirdo-possibly a weirdo who listens to this podcast-you have no idea.
Read at The Atlantic
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