Ezra Klein

The reason hundreds of thousands of people are leaving California and Illinois and New York every single year for Texas and Florida and Arizona, we survey them. It's cost of living. We've made the places we govern too expensive. And that's because we have not created enough of the things that we need.

The reason hundreds of thousands of people are leaving California and Illinois and New York every single year for Texas and Florida and Arizona, we survey them. It's cost of living. We've made the places we govern too expensive. And that's because we have not created enough of the things that we need.

And I think that requires not just a self-examination, but a message that says, we actually fucked up. Right. This didn't happen completely by accident, but we understand the way in which we fucked up and we have a plan to not do it again. And I don't think that what is energetic in that is like every individual housing idea.

And I think that requires not just a self-examination, but a message that says, we actually fucked up. Right. This didn't happen completely by accident, but we understand the way in which we fucked up and we have a plan to not do it again. And I don't think that what is energetic in that is like every individual housing idea.

I think it is the generalized notion that the people came before me, whoever this imaginary politician is. They made some mistakes. We're in a different era now. And what I have is not the continuation of the last 30 years of liberal policies that you're already not happy about.

I think it is the generalized notion that the people came before me, whoever this imaginary politician is. They made some mistakes. We're in a different era now. And what I have is not the continuation of the last 30 years of liberal policies that you're already not happy about.

What I have is something new that takes the best of that and then is alert to the things that you're upset about because in this last 30 years, things got worse for you in a bunch of real ways.

What I have is something new that takes the best of that and then is alert to the things that you're upset about because in this last 30 years, things got worse for you in a bunch of real ways.

I want to be a bit more of a bad cop on this, which is to say that everything Derek says is right. But also, there are a lot of ways antitrust harmonizes here and that If I were just trying to think about the nicest way to say this, my friends in the whole problem is oligarchy part of the party. And I believe a good part of our problems are oligarchy.

I want to be a bit more of a bad cop on this, which is to say that everything Derek says is right. But also, there are a lot of ways antitrust harmonizes here and that If I were just trying to think about the nicest way to say this, my friends in the whole problem is oligarchy part of the party. And I believe a good part of our problems are oligarchy.

But there are certain kinds of problems they're then willing to see and certain kinds they're not as willing to see. So in housing, I find a lot of them get obsessed with this idea that private investors are buying up a bunch of rental housing. And this is an extremely small part of the market right now. And it's just not the main problem in housing.

But there are certain kinds of problems they're then willing to see and certain kinds they're not as willing to see. So in housing, I find a lot of them get obsessed with this idea that private investors are buying up a bunch of rental housing. And this is an extremely small part of the market right now. And it's just not the main problem in housing.

But because it is the villain they are comfortable having, it is where they want to put their focus. Kamala Harris had I was very excited when she brought out her big plan for for three million to build three million units of housing. But her plan never would have achieved anything like it.

But because it is the villain they are comfortable having, it is where they want to put their focus. Kamala Harris had I was very excited when she brought out her big plan for for three million to build three million units of housing. But her plan never would have achieved anything like it.

It did have a big thing about trying to do something about this private investor buying up housing issue, though. So you can really get, I think, taken off the track when you're very concerned with how policy codes. A thing I found really interesting in Zephyr's review was that, is it something good and small like zoning reform? And try doing zoning reform if you think it's small, right?

It did have a big thing about trying to do something about this private investor buying up housing issue, though. So you can really get, I think, taken off the track when you're very concerned with how policy codes. A thing I found really interesting in Zephyr's review was that, is it something good and small like zoning reform? And try doing zoning reform if you think it's small, right?

Or something bad like deregulation. Okay, interesting, right? Deregulation is a word that I think shuts liberals down a bit. And it shouldn't. A lot of what we're pointing out in the book is that the player that is often most regulated is not the market. It's the government itself.

Or something bad like deregulation. Okay, interesting, right? Deregulation is a word that I think shuts liberals down a bit. And it shouldn't. A lot of what we're pointing out in the book is that the player that is often most regulated is not the market. It's the government itself.

If you want to understand why the government can't build public housing effectively, I mean, in many ways, the federal government building public housing is now functionally illegal. It's been regulated out of possibility.

If you want to understand why the government can't build public housing effectively, I mean, in many ways, the federal government building public housing is now functionally illegal. It's been regulated out of possibility.