Nick Pell

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6,131 appearances 17 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2025 last heard 4d ago

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The Jordan Harbinger Show · 1381: The Housing Crisis | Skeptical Sunday · 13 Sep 2026 podcast

So the thing about zoning laws is they suck. matched

But without them, there's nothing stopping someone from building a pork processing plant next to your neo-Victorian luxury home. matched

By the way, this is one of the oldest forms of law is saying that you can't do stuff like that. matched

This goes back to like pre-modern England, that there'd be like matched

They have laws going back forever about this because people understand there's externalities involved that need to be managed. matched

You don't hand wave them away and you don't allow the zoning laws to be like nothing can be built anywhere because somebody is going to be unhappy about it. matched

You find where the rubber meets the road and you make a law for that. matched

And I think that local communities are much more capable of sorting this out in a way that works for them. matched

If not everyone, then almost everyone, then regulators in Washington are going to be. matched

former in-laws actually live near a pork processing plant, and it stank. matched

No, but there's tons demanding you have a two car garage or a certain number of mature trees on the lawn, which that's going to add 30 grand to the cost of a house. matched

But hey, developers already don't want to build anything under 250 K. So I don't know. matched

Maybe it's not a big deal. matched

Yeah. matched

People want a magic bullet that's just going to undo this Gordian knot of problems that it doesn't exist. matched

We have some good data on this. matched

In any of this data, though, I always want to know what the percentage of people saying they don't want to rent a home because they don't think they can actually have matched

is. matched

There's no real way to know this, but I think it's fair to say that it's non-trivial. matched

A good example of this manifesting is the always renters. matched

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