Housing solution is building more supply
The case was made that the only way to achieve broadly cheaper rents is to build significantly more housing, citing Long Island's transformation from farmland to suburbia as a historical precedent.
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CONTESTED · 10 MENTIONS · 8 EPISODES · 6 SHOWS
13 OCT 2025 — 26 AUG 2026 · YESTERDAY
1 SUPPORT · 1 CHALLENGE · 2 REPEAT · 6 MENTIONED
- BIGGERPOCKETS REAL ESTATE PODCAST
- THE KNOWLEDGE PROJECT
- ALL-IN WITH CHAMATH, JASON, SACKS & FRIEDBERG
- ALL-IN WITH CHAMATH, JASON, SACKS & FRIEDBERG
- THE POMP PODCAST
- ALL-IN WITH CHAMATH, JASON, SACKS & FRIEDBERG
- AFFORD ANYTHING · 3 MENTIONS
- Housing crisis solution: build more
- Rent control rewards incumbents, hurts affordability
- Housing solution is building more supply · THIS IDEA
- THOUGHTFUL MONEY
HOW THE SHOWS HAVE DISCUSSED THIS THESIS OVER TIME · NOT A PERFORMANCE RECORD