housing 5
- Having private actors take on housing development risks is better than expecting the government to build millions of homes.
- The era of cheap borrowing has ended, making large-scale government housing investments difficult.
Jerusalem Demsas
American journalist; founder and editor-in-chief of The Argument, a magazine launched in 2025. Previously a staff writer at Vox and The Atlantic, where she wrote about housing and hosted the Good on Paper podcast; author of On the Housing Crisis (2024).
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politics 4
- The politics of interest groups act as a significant barrier to solving the U.S. housing supply crisis.
- Politics should not be the place where people find meaning.
America 3
- The politics of interest groups act as a significant barrier to solving the U.S. housing supply crisis.
- The structure of power in American politics often cleaves along lines that have nothing to do with being a billionaire.
government 2
- Having private actors take on housing development risks is better than expecting the government to build millions of homes.
- The era of cheap borrowing has ended, making large-scale government housing investments difficult.