Western housing shortages do not just prevent many from ever affording their own home. They also drive inequality, climate change, low productivity growth, obesity, and even falling fertility rates.

Vox's Jerusalem Demsas joins Matt and Dara on a time machine trip back to a WW1-era Supreme Court decision that shaped land use policy, zoning, and racial discrimination in housing. Discussion of Buchanan (and the related Euclid case decided nine years later) leads our hosts to talk a lot about the interrelated histories of zoning and racism in twentieth-century America.

Homes going $850,000 above asking, 96 offers in one weekend, and more tales from America’s most intense housing frenzy.

U.S. households added $13.5 trillion in wealth last year, the biggest increase in records going back three decades.

This is a report I wrote for my housing policy course at UCLA. I’ve been interested in inclusionary zoning and its potential side effects…

The federal government often gives less help to Black disaster survivors than their white neighbors. That’s a challenge for President Biden, who has vowed to fight both inequality and climate change.

Lower home appraisal values contribute to the wealth gap between white communities and communities of Black and Latinx people.

Owner-occupied homes in Black neighborhoods are undervalued by $48,000 per home on average, amounting to $156 billion in cumulative losses.

The widely diverse Asian American community is broadly prosperous by many metrics, but individual hardships faced by some groups cannot be overlooked.

The City Observatory is a study of modern-day cities and urban development practices.

The City Observatory is a study of modern-day cities and urban development practices.

The City Observatory is a study of modern-day cities and urban development practices.