Jerusalem Demsas on Problems in the US Housing Market and How to Fix Them
Jerusalem Demsas is a policy reporter for Vox and joins David on Macro Musings to discuss the state of housing in America and its implications for policy. Specifically, Jerusalem and David discuss the current state of the housing market, whether there is a housing bubble, how the housing shortage creates avenues for discrimination, the dynamics of racism in the US housing market, the impact of zoning laws, and much more.
Transcript for the episode can be found here: https://www.mercatus.org/bridge/tags/macro-musings
Jerusalem’s Twitter: @JerusalemDemsas
Jerusalem’s Vox archive: https://www.vox.com/authors/jerusalem-demsas
Related Links:
*Housing Constraints and Spatial Misallocation* by Chang-Tai Hsieh and Enrico Moretti
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/mac.20170388
*Is There a Housing Bubble?* by Jerusalem Demsas
https://www.vox.com/22464801/housing-bubble-market-crash-supply-shortage-great-recession
*Stuck! The Law and Economics of Residential Stagnation* by David Schleicher
https://www.yalelawjournal.org/article/stuck-the-law-and-economics-of-residential-stagnation
*The Housing Shortage Makes Housing Discrimination Much Easier* by Jerusalem Demsas
*America's Racist Housing Rules Really Can Be Fixed* by Jerusalem Demsas
https://www.vox.com/22252625/america-racist-housing-rules-how-to-fix
*The Fight Over Housing Segregation is Dividing one of America's Most Liberal States* by Jerusalem Demsas
*Why Does it Cost so Much to Build Things in America* by Jerusalem Demsas
https://www.vox.com/22534714/rail-roads-infrastructure-costs-america
David’s blog: macromarketmusings.blogspot.com
David’s Twitter: @DavidBeckworth