Steve Kastenbaum
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395 appearances
52 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 6d ago
Steve Kastenbaum’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Now, these investors, they do just make up a tiny fraction of the overall housing market.
But I did speak with Senator Warren, a Democrat who co-sponsored a bill with Republican Senator Tim Scott.
And she pointed out how in some places like Atlanta, corporations own a big slice of the market.
Yeah, one of the core ideas of this bill is to make it easier for home builders to build homes.
And it does that by streamlining federal housing regulation.
Like, for example, if there's a new building going up between two that already got an environmental review, builders really can skip that step.
Another provision creates a grant to have communities develop, like, essentially a Sears catalog of pre-approved housing designs so builders need fewer approvals to get up to code.
And when I asked researchers, there was like one thing they were most excited about, this corner of the housing market that sort of has been forgotten about and stigmatized.
That is manufactured homes.
They are cheaper to build than other homes.
And this will make it so that's even cheaper by getting rid of a part that most owners don't even need.
That is this permanent chassis, this metal frame that lets you transport it.
You know, mobile homes are rarely actually mobile.
They usually stay in just one spot.
This bill gets rid of that chassis requirement because it's not needed in many cases.
That alone could save $5,000 or $10,000 worth of price tags, so it can make a pretty big difference here.
Well, it's going to take a while to feel most effects of this bill.
It's just going to take time to encourage more new home building and just actually build the homes.
The bill also encourages local governments to do some reforms because they have actually a lot of power over how fast houses get built.
And there will still be other challenges like mortgage rates and land costs.
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