Alex Tabarrok
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240 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 9 Jun
Alex Tabarrok’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah, I mean, look, with housing, it's not the construction of housing, which has gotten so much more, you know, expensive.
It's almost 100% the land.
Okay.
The cost of the land.
Yeah.
So, and you look, I mean, you just go to, you know, San Francisco, San Jose, which ought to be, right, some glorious metropolis, you know, of the future with, you know,
sky high buildings and people traveling around and, you know, fantastic.
It's a land of strip malls.
You know, Silicon Valley is a land of strip malls.
It really is.
And, and strip malls, which is extremely, extremely expensive.
They're just lying on, you know,
very valuable land, and there are people that are allowed to build.
I'm hopeful of something like California Forever, where they're trying to get permission to start a new city.
I'm hopeful for things of that nature.
But none of this, this is all policy.
All of this is under our control in some sense.
This is not like we haven't been hit by a tornado and we're all poor and have no housing.
It's because we've said, no, you cannot build.
Yeah, I agree with you.
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