Monica Vantilburg
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1,410 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 22 Jul
Monica Vantilburg’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Decades of underbuilding, restrictive zoning laws, and rising construction costs have created a severe housing shortage, especially in cities.
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High mortgage rates have also locked existing homeowners in place, reducing supply further.
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No one wants to leave the deal they got in 2014, and that leaves a bunch of people fighting for scraps at open houses.
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Right now, there's a lot of effort to try and undo these laws because people need places to live.
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But it's not a solution that can be enacted overnight.
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And then there's food.
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The cost of buying weekly groceries has become a huge money drain for so many people.
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You are not imagining things.
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So not only is eating out more pricey, so is buying a carrot at the supermarket to go cook at home.
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There's the things we talked about, like natural disasters, disrupting yields,
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and issues like tariffs and the war on Iran impacting pricing.
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Yes, even the fertilizer that makes our produce is reliant on fossil fuels, which are currently trapped in the Strait of Hormuz until Israel and the Trump administration come to a compromise with the new Ayatollah.
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The longstanding supply chain issues in this sector still haven't fully resolved.
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For years now, we've seen labor shortages and disruptions that are still affecting production and transportation, which just keeps pushing prices up.
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Mass deportations led by the Trump administration also hugely impacted the agriculture labor force since undocumented workers are quite literally the backbone of who farms our food.
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Plus, companies have gotten comfortable with higher prices and aren't rushing to lower them even when their costs stabilize.
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In many industries like grocery, airlines, and healthcare,
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Corporate consolidation has also reduced competition, giving companies more pricing power.
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They're not incentivized to really cut you a deal because they're thinking, what are you going to do about it?
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There's nowhere else for you to buy your stuff.
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