SOLD OUT: Rethinking Housing in America
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
How We Rebuild - Part 3
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Gas or electric? It’s a question more homeowners are asking as they build, rebuild or refurbish their homes. Going electric is one of the best ways ...
How We Rebuild - Part 2
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
KQED’s housing and climate reporters team up for a special series on what it takes to recover from catastrophic wildfires, as the focus in Los Angel...
How We Rebuild - Part 1
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
KQED’s housing and climate reporters team up with a special series about what it takes to recover from catastrophe. In this first episode, we visit ...
Coming Soon: How We Rebuild
08 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join us on Wednesday, February 12 as the KQED housing and climate reporters team up for a special series exploring recovery efforts after the devastat...
Forever Dreaming, California
28 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In a rural corner of the San Francisco Bay Area, a tech investor has a vision to build a walkable city atop farmland and golden rolling hills. The pr...
'Going Bare' In The Wildlands
21 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rachel Traficante and her husband Mark have spent the last few decades perfecting their dream home in the mountain town of of Cohasset, California, an...
After The Flood Waters Recede
14 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One night in March 2023, the rain-swollen Pajaro River in Monterey County burst the seams of a levee, flooding the rural town of Pajaro and damaging h...
Facing The Fire
20 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Growing up in California's Sierra Nevada foothills, wildfire has always been part of Sold Out host Erin Baldassari’s consciousness. Her earliest mem...
Sold Out Presents: Sea Change
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sea Change is a podcast from WWNO and WRKF in Louisiana that dives deep into the environmental issues facing coastal communities on the Gulf Coast and...
Surviving California's Insurance Crisis
13 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When a flood or fire swallows someone’s home, insurance can provide some stability, and prevent a plunge into poverty. But as insurance companies pu...
Reimagining Our Cities For The Climate
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What if there was a way that California could build the housing it needs and drastically cut carbon emissions at the same time? City planners and env...
Electric Avenue
30 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A quarter of California’s carbon emissions come from homes and buildings -- from the appliances we use to keep ourselves warm and our families fed. ...
Surviving Extreme Heat Without A Home
23 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Whether it’s severe heat, fires, or floods, people experiencing homelessness are on the bleeding edge of the climate emergency. We follow the story ...
Searching For Home On Higher Ground
16 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Climate change is intensifying wet periods across California - untaming waterways humans corralled with dirt and concrete. When the river comes for ...
Sold Out Is Back With Season 3
06 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sold Out: Rethinking Housing In America is back with an all new season. Host Erin Baldassari leads a team of reporters as they grapple with the ways c...
Your Stories and Solutions for the Housing Crisis
25 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What are your biggest ideas on how to solve the housing crisis? How has housing impacted/shaped your life? Throughout this season, we wanted to hear f...
The Rent Eats First
14 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The number one reason people are evicted is falling behind on rent. So how do you keep that from happening in the first place? In the final chapter ...
Landlord v Tenant
07 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Step into an eviction court and you’ll likely see it: most landlords have attorneys while tenants do not. Eviction cases move quickly, and represent...
The Landlord’s Game
28 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The decision to evict someone can affect them and their ability to find stable housing for years. It’s a decision that gives landlords a lot of powe...
The Color of Evictions
21 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Evictions do not affect everyone equally. Millions of renters in this country have struggled to make rent after losing income during the pandemic. And...
Evicted: A Suburban Story
14 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The place with the highest eviction rate in the Bay Area during the pandemic wasn't a big city like Oakland or San Francisco — instead it was a subu...
SOLD OUT is Back With a New Season
31 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
During the pandemic, a safe home has been more important than ever. At the same time, millions of people have found themselves on the edge of evictio...
SOLD OUT LIVE: Evictions, Moratoriums and Rent Relief
29 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The pandemic brought millions of people to the edge of losing their housing. And it sparked a national conversation about the connection between housi...
We're Coming Back With A New Season — But First, A Live Event
10 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Every year, at least 3.7 million evictions are filed in the United States. And during the pandemic, millions more renters suddenly found themselves o...
You Had Questions, We've Got Answers
24 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A LOT has happened since we brought you SOLD OUT, our five-part series which dove into solutions to the country's growing housing affordability crisis...
Bonus: Stories from Inside the Housing Crisis
26 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In a bonus episode, we’re featuring stories that show how housing touches us all in different ways. Each one is a part of a bigger picture. Hear fro...
A Right To Housing
19 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the United States, housing is something you are expected to earn. But in too many places and for too many people, buying a home or renting is unaf...
Housing As Reparations
12 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In America, homeownership has historically, and still is, the main way to build wealth. However racism and decades of discriminatory policies and lend...
Zoning Out
05 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The single-family home is synonymous with the American dream. But that Norman Rockwell-esque image of a single home surrounded by a white picket fence...
Prefabulous
28 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
California has a huge housing shortage. The state says it needs to build nearly 2 million homes in the next five years. But we’re not building anyw...
Hotel Corona
21 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
When the coronavirus began spreading across the United States, health officials advised people to stay home and shelter-in-place, to protect themselve...
Introducing SOLD OUT: Rethinking Housing in America
10 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Tents, evictions, long commutes and gentrification — our nation’s housing crisis has been long in the making as spiraling housing costs crush the ...