New Podcast: Sabrina Tavernise, The Rise of the Single-Family Home, The Daily, N.Y. Times (October 11, 2022).
To tackle its critical shortage of affordable housing, California has taken aim at a central tenet of the American dream: the single-family home.
Telling the story of one such property, in San Diego, can teach us about the larger housing crisis and how we might solve it.
On today’s episode: Conor Dougherty, an economics reporter at The New York Times and author of “Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America.”
Background reading
The transformation of 5120 Baxter Street in San Diego is a projection of California’s tighter, taller future.
NIMBYs, referring to residents who fight nearby development — especially anything involving apartments — are often blamed for worsening the housing crisis.
Poverty Law 