Austin Hankwitz

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12,507 appearances 37 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 2d ago

Austin Hankwitz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Rich Habits Podcast · AI Safety Fears, Fed Rate Hikes, & Airbnb's $250M Housing Fund · 18 Sep 2026 podcast

They can't go higher and higher. podcast-host

higher and higher to cover that gap. podcast-host

So priority now goes to affordability and mixed income housing, which is a lot better than, you know, Robert, you're in St. podcast-host

Pete right now. podcast-host

All that's being built in St. podcast-host

Peter these luxury condos. podcast-host

I love that. podcast-host

Let's get let's let's get more CEOs that want to offer up solutions for, you know, housing affordability. podcast-host

And let's let's also now talk through the scale of the math. podcast-host

Airbnb's individual investments will typically cover around 10% of a project's total capital, which sounds small on paper, but Daniel Hornung, the former Biden administration housing official who's now running this new program for Airbnb, says that that 10%. podcast-host

percent gap is usually exactly what is needed to unlock the other ninety percent and get a stalled deal like the one here that's been sitting on twenty acres in Austin, Texas for a decade now moving again. podcast-host

So every time interest rates go up, it subtracts the amount of market rate capital that you're able to attract for the deal. podcast-host

It then creates gaps that you need to fill somewhere else. podcast-host

That is the exact same rate pressure we were just talking about earlier, Robert. podcast-host

It's not just squeezing home builders selling half a million dollar houses. podcast-host

It's squeezing the affordable and mixed income projects in a city that, you know, Austin, Texas needs built more of. podcast-host

Completely agree. podcast-host

It it it should never take that long. podcast-host

And you know, I'll give Austin, Texas their flowers. podcast-host

You know, rents have gone down dramatically in Austin, Texas. podcast-host

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