Having a roof over your head is foundational. This podcast shines a light and opened my eyes on the crises we are facing in both the unhoused and climate change in this planet.

this podcast makes climate change personal and draws ties to it i wouldn't have thought of. definitely am learning a lot and this is my favorite podcast!

Very biased.

Loved this years podcast; it’s timely, and highlights how personal climate change/natural disasters are. Also, unlike some podcasts which deal with climate change, the series also offer community solutions.

Natural disasters instantly being blamed on climate change, seriously? Natural disasters have always been a thing stop conforming to this idea, do you work for electric car companies? Why are you pushing climate change? How about find real solutions.

Haven’t heard any ideas for alternate living situations, housing materials, affordable community, efficient architecture , etc. all I heard is social and political issues. Very one sided and push for socialism is what I hear being talked about. Disappointing.

This podcast provides unrelated problems people face and ties them into complex social issues. None of which address the real problem or real solution

I just found Sold Out. Excellent. Where do I subscribe?

Too woke for me, pass.

They gave poor advice & talked about black women who have been evicted because they’re colored.

I can’t wait to hear the rest of the episodes!

Trying to draw conclusions about housing policy by focusing on eviction is like learning about romantic love by studying ugly court divorces. A married couple has a 50 percent chance of one partner getting booted by a spouse in divorce. My eviction rate, as a landlord, is only 2 percent. This series should consider showing respect and appreciation to landlords who provide housing. Statistically, we are quite a bit more reliable than YOUR spouse. We landlords feel useful and thrilled to provide a happy home to our customers. Most of the time. But we make human mistakes. Every nasty person you see on the local news wants housing from us. Sometimes they lie so well that we say yes. Sometimes we give a tenant a second chance even when we know they have cheated (on us or another landlord). Sometimes we need an escape from the poor tenant selection decision we have made. I propose: I won’t say you can’t divorce your abusive spouse. Please don’t tell me I can’t evict my horrible tenant. —- I hope you grammar police npr folks appreciate my intended deviancy.

Very good coverage of an important topic. Evictions are so damaging. Corporate landlords are taking over. Commodification of housing is damaging our society.

Amazing podcast! I’ve grown up in the Bay Area but couldn’t afford to live here. Between homelessness, putting myself through school, and fighting for a home. I felt alone and abandoned by my community. This podcast made me feel less alone, and educated me on the internal workings of how things have gotten as bad as they have in the Bay Area. But more importantly it made me see a solution and motivated me to help make a change.

Truly enjoying this walk through history on the different housing policies of the past. It is a great understating of how old school ordnances have shaped our neighborhoods to de what they are today. This pod cast is touching on the racial and economic divide that still exist today. Job well done.

I would love to hear another season on this important topic! Thank you!

Good podcast with great information about the problems with housing in America. Through the people they interview they also provide a future of how it COULD be if proper steps are taken. If your interested in housing in general or just economics of how people live here, this is a good podcast to listen too.

This podcast is a great source for beginning to learn about housing inequality and systemic racism. Very informative while using personal stories to be accesible

This show was very informative about the housing crisis. I would love to hear more about what can be done to solve the issues.

This is the best podcast I’ve heard in a long time ... and I listen to a lot of podcasts!

Really interesting show, very informative. I recommend it.

Please make another season

Thank you so much for bringing this topic to attention. The podcast is well done and super interesting. I am in the age of buying my first property, looking to buy in the city of Dallas but everything is so expensive. People shouldn’t be living in the streets of our most prosperous cities. Everytime I see a homeless person my heart breaks, thinking that could be me If I lose my job or a friend or a family member. How common people like me can get involved and raise awareness to the situation in our cities ?

Living in Santa Cruz where the lack of enough affordable housing is very evident, this podcast was fascinating for me. Please keep up this podcast!

Thank you for doing this podcast. The topic is overlooked and discounted by many local governments for all of the reasons you touched on and many more from what I understand. I really hope you can do a second season that explores the barriers to affordable housing and also affordable transportation, specifically the overlap of the two in transit-oriented development (TOD). It’s common for rural, red countries to block those developments because of the gerrymandering practices they worked hard to establish. Connecting blue dots across the USA would do so much to change peoples’ living situations, their ability to travel and commute, as well as the underlying political landscape.

The series is well produced and identifies a clear problem about the lack of affordable housing in high demand jurisdictions. The suggested solutions are god awful though and include: 1) Reparations (what??) 2) Housing as a human right (i.e. we will all live in Soviet-style housing blocks) 3) Forcing high income neighborhoods to build low income housing, but don’t complain about the impact this has on house prices or crime because that is racist There is minimal discussion around the impact of strict development rules, such as urban growth boundaries, on the lack of affordable housing. Also, gentrification is treated as only negative. As a former rust belt resident, I can guarantee upstate New York would love to have the problem of house prices increasing in its urban cores vs the current problem of mass vacancies, urban decay, crime etc. It’s an entertaining listen, but is clearly slanted towards a progressive solution to the problem.

Please do another season!

It’s about California but as someone in the AEC industry with feet in New York and Arizona I can tell you this show is about what’s happening nationally. The structure is smart, and the research is relatable. Can’t wait to see how it expands to more episodes.

I really appreciate how they approach this serious conversation with powerful yet friendly voices. As a young individual who hopes to make an impact on this issue in the future, I love the variety of information & settings. They make me want to be more involved so I can make a change to help with this home inequality crisis.

I work in homeless services and see this every single day. Our city recently moved our shelter and sold the land for high rise apartments. They also cut the emergency beds. People would be shocked to see how closely they are to also being homeless or needing assistance.

About two weeks ago I decided to create a new yet old concept of living. Growing up in New York City, I lived in a NYC housing project with diverse people, diverse religions, atheists, all sorts of people and characters. It was the place my Grand mother had become the grand mother to the black, white and Spanish children every Friday, when she travelled by train from Brooklyn to come to the Woodside Projects in Queens to have diner with me and my family. She always had a pocket full of hard candy to give to the children who would yell, “Nanny’s coming, Nanny’s coming” knowing she would hug them and slip a candy in their hands. My desire is to build a 21 st century housing that encompasses the community I grew up in with innovative housing with mixed races, religions and acceptance of LGBTQ, and disabled people. I learned at an early age to accept the differences of people. In acceptance, I learned we are all the same regardless of color, religion and how we choose to love, dress or be. Your podcast and stories gave me the idea on how to begin, how to create and how to connect to the variety of communities, builders, community leaders in the field and community of social leaders to begin. Your podcasts are a valuable resource of moving forward in new ways of living. Mariannne.

When white people move into the city = bad. When white people leave the city to the burbs = also bad. Got it.

I’ve lived in a small town for about 20 years. I’ve watched the town grow and grow. I’m happy with the growth, but disappointed in the rise in home prices and rental rates. Homes I knew to be $60,000 a couple years ago are now $200,000. All local workers have not seen increases in wages, so how can they afford these prices!? It’s very discrouraging. I love my town but feel that soon, I will have to seek an affordable home elsewhere. I appreciate you shining a light on this and letting it be known that crisis needs to be focused on and fixed.

Excellent series highlighting people currently experiencing homelessness or unstable housing situations and delving into the historical factors that led up to America’s failure to House all its citizens.

An education in every episode. Thoughtfully researched and presented.

Thank you!

Thank you for an informative, engaging series. As depressing as the housing situation can be, I found this inspiring. I’ve been researching organizations and programs you referenced in the series.

Six episodes in, we’ve heard a lot about the social and historical aspects of the housing crisis, which is interesting and informative. But economics, regulation, and politics play HUGE roles in this, and I feel that only the first episode has addressed the economics of housing, whereas we haven’t even scratched the surface of the causes of reluctance of municipalities to permit housing developments, or of the red tape and legal hurdles of permitting, or of the impacts of today’s NIMBYism, varieties of which take root in both social and environmental issues. I know it’s a new podcast but I was expecting we would have delved into these issues by this point. Really hoping we get there soon - this is important!!

Fantastic!

I especially liked the episode on how housing could be a mechanism for reparations

“And wealth and race are inextricably linked, just like today”.....you obviously don’t live in the same century or country as I Give people what their owed....nice Really this is all you have for being able to fix the housing problem...look how dumb we’ve become as a nation that this is all we can come up with

Just finished the episode about single-family housing/zoning. I’m learning so much from this series already. Thank you for this reporting!

Really informative! Just recently in LA residents placed rocks on the sidewalk to limit the homeless from making an encampment, how exclusionary housing affects from the macro to micro level is important in changing design and buildings from a local level.

Incredible storytelling about such an important topic. Listen to this if you want to learn some of the most important reasons we’ve let housing get so expensive in California and beyond.

Such a great podcast. Love hearing and learning and really Being informed. The episode “Zoning Out” was an eye opener and full Of such rich history. Add to your Subscription today and be sure to share!!!

If you wanna know how we got here AND where we might go FROM here, this is a great podcast.

Excellent story telling about the reasons for unaffordability of housing.

i moved out of SF just before coronavirus hit, a big reason being the cost of living and quality of life in SF just didn’t match up. i’m happy to hear other bay area natives dig deep to find some housing hope for our city, and country / world.

Such good reporting, so topical!! A must-listen!!

Sold Out is an insightful and comprehensive podcast that reveals the complexity and gravity of the housing and homelessness crisis; looking forward to learning even more about this most critical issue.