Jason, Rob, and Asher are taking out a huge, unaffordable mortgage on the housing crisis. What’s behind the shortage in housing? Why is it that no one, except canine Tik Tok influencers with billion-dollar bank accounts, can afford to own a home? While mainstream pundits press for an energy-blind buildout of desert sprawl and gleaming towers of glass and steel, we propose a surprising change of course inspired by little people with hairy feet. Originally recorded on 5/21/25.Warning: This podcast occasionally uses spicy language.Sources/Links/Notes:<ul><li>The <a href='https://www.idahostatesman.com/press-releases/article305385056.html'>story of Gunther</a>, the world's most moneyed canine.</li><li>You can't make this stuff up: <a href='https://www.idahostatesman.com/press-releases/article305385056.html'>Gunther offers to buy Nicholas Cage's island</a>.</li><li>David Wessel, "<a href='https://www.brookings.edu/articles/where-do-the-estimates-of-a-housing-shortage-come-from/'>Where do the estimates of a 'housing shortage' come from?</a>," Brookings Institute, October 21, 2024.</li><li>Alex Fitzpatrick and Alice Feng, "<a href='https://www.axios.com/2024/03/24/average-commute-distance-us-map'>Americans' average daily travel distance, mapped</a>," Axios, March 24, 2024.</li><li>Jon Gertner, "<a href='https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/books/review/abrahm-lustgarten-on-the-move.html'>America Is on Fire, Says One Climate Writer. Should You Flee?</a>," New York Times, March 22, 2024.</li><li>U.S. News and World Report, "<a href='https://realestate.usnews.com/places/rankings/fastest-growing-places'>Fastest-Growing Places in the U.S. in 2025-2026.</a>"</li></ul>Good Ideas for Addressing the Housing Crisis:<ul><li>Jason Bradford, "<a href='https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-05-27/growing-the-shire-not-the-burb-facing-the-housing-crisis-with-ecological-sanity/'>Growing the Shire, Not the 'Burb: Facing the Housing Crisis with Ecological Sanity</a>," Resilience, May 27, 2025.</li><li><a href='https://ecovillage.org/'>Global Ecovillage Network</a></li><li>Nate Hagens, "<a href='https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/171-alexis-zeigler'>Alexis Zeigler —  Living Without Fossil Fuels: How Living Energy Farm Created a Comfortable Off-Grid Lifestyle</a>," The Great Simplification, April 9, 2025.</li></ul>Energy-Blind Non-Solutions for the Housing Crisis:<ul><li>Conor Dougherty, "<a href='https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/magazine/suburban-sprawl-texas.html'>Why America Should Sprawl</a>," New York Times, April 10, 2025.</li><li>Binyamin Applebaum, "<a href='https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/opinion/housing-crisis-federal-land.html'>Build Homes on Federal Land</a>," New York Times, April 15, 2025.</li><li>Ezra Klein, "<a href='https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-saikat-chakrabarti-zephyr-teachout.html'>Abundance and the Left</a>," The Ezra Klein Show, April 29, 2025.</li><li>Samuel Moyn, "<a href='https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/books/review/abundance-ezra-klein-derek-thompson.html'>Can Democrats Learn to Dream Big Again?</a>," New York Times, March 18, 2025.</li><li>Tyler Cowen, "<a href='https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/ezra-klein-3/'>Ezra Klein on the Abundance Agenda (Ep. 236)</a>" Conversations with Tyler, March 7, 2025.</li></ul>Related Episode(s) of Crazy Town:<ul><li><a href='https://www.resilience.org/stories/2021-04-15/discounting-the-future-and-climate-chaos-or-the-story-of-the-dueling-economists-episode-37-of-crazy-town/'>Episode 37</a>. Discounting the Future and Climate Chaos, or… the Story of the Dueling Economists</li></ul><a rel="payment" href="https://www.postcarbon.org/supportcrazytown/">Support the show</a>

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