Ed Glazer
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16 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 28 Jun
Ed Glazer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You had people like William Levitt figuring out how to mass-produce housing on an incredible scale.
This combination of the availability of extra land due to the automobile with the manufacturing genius taking techniques that Henry Ford had put in his moving assembly lines and then bringing them to housing construction, the sort of method where the plumbers and the carpenters would just go up and down a street, adding their little bit to each house as they went.
That was sort of an amazing period in terms of post-war America of just making ordinary housing available to mid-income Americans.
Twelve million households now owe more than their homes are worth.
One way to think about this is if America was building at the same rate between 2000 and 2020 that we did between 1980 and 2000, America would have 15 million more housing units.
You see the combination of high prices and high mortgage rates, which makes things pretty brutal for anyone who wants to buy in.
Younger Americans don't feel like they've got a great stake in the system.
Economists are able to differentiate demand shocks from supply shocks by looking at the combination of prices and quantities.
And what we know in housing is that prices are way up and the quantity built is way down.
And that's not compatible with any demand side story.
That's compatible only with a supply side story.
Well, it's almost impossible to imagine what community is going to let you do that.
Over time, housing morphs from being like an electric toaster, which you just spit out of the factory whenever you need it, to being like a Rembrandt, like a precious object that no one's making any more of it.
We've got to become a country for outsiders again, not just a country in which insiders get to freeze the community at exactly the level that they want when they bought it.
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