Caro Claire Burke
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4,515 appearances
9 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 23 Aug
Caro Claire Burke’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Perhaps both books neglect the politics of land use in rural America because they do not map neatly onto their market-first frameworks, which suppose that overregulation is the primary cause of housing unaffordability in the United States.
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Even if rural towns wanted to upzone, many lack the basic infrastructure—yeah, sewers, water, roads, broadband—to support new construction.
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Profit margins for developers, moreover, are slim to nonexistent.
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Capital is scarce, and where rural housing has been successfully delivered, it has only been because the state guaranteed it, through USDA's Section 502 and 515 programs, for instance.
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That funding has been gutted.
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Section 502 direct loans alone were slashed by nearly a third between fiscal years 2023 and 2024.
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Okay,
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President of our hearts.
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Gavin Newsom.
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That's my president already, Gavin Newsom.
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Go on, Katie.
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I just feel like when I watch this conversation, it's not that I doubt that they have a legitimate position.
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It just genuinely feels like I'm listening to someone speak a different dialect of America.
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Where I'm like, if we're talking about the last, like Derek doing like 50, 25, that's how you understand.
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I'm just like...
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Why?
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I just don't relate to it.
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And I'm sure it just has to do with like my interests versus his interests.
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But I'm like, I don't know if that explains income inequality in America or the fact that people can't afford homes.
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Like it's just it just really strikes me as a reaffirming of this wonkish like, no, no, don't follow the Occam's razor.
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