Robert Smith
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 26 Aug
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Planet Money · The continent nobody owns & everyone benefits from (Summer School) · 26 Aug 2026
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You have to prove that you have the parking space before you can get the car.
Do people hate this in Tokyo?
This seems like a lot of bureaucracy and that you can't park your car in front of your house.
We've talked a lot in summer school about the concept of externality, which is some free things have an actual cost and
The parking on your street may seem free, but it is not in fact free.
Everyone pays for it.
What you're saying is in Japan, the people who pay for their parking are the people with the cars.
Lang Craig Hill in the cicada filled mountains of Japan.
Okay, city administrators of America, the ball is in your court.
Hopefully you're not up for reelection.
Our next graduation speaker and provocative idea comes from Vienna, Austria.
Lots of cities around the world have tried to tackle affordable housing.
Even here in New York, we have public housing for the poorest families and rent control for the lucky.
But I will tell you this has not kept the rents down for the rest of us New Yorkers.
Our next graduation speaker wanted to suggest the way that Vienna handles this problem.
Heini has studied what is called social housing in Vienna.
It's like public housing for vast swaths of the middle class.
It's estimated that around half of the people in Vienna live in either government supported housing or nonprofit cooperatives or are covered under rent control, including Heini herself.
The key to Vienna's system is that the government builds a lot of housing.
It takes land from things like the old city airport and unused train stations and builds large and very nice apartment complexes.
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