Best Pricedout Podcasts (2024)

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Episode 13: Building more low-income housing 48:38

1+ y ago48:38

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In Episode 13 we are joined by none other than US housing policy expert Mark Shelburne from Novogradac & Company, where he advises states across America on the innovative affordable housing funding mechanism the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC). Join Freddie and Chris in the discussion with Mark on how this supply-side mechanism works and how …

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Episode 12: A Home of One's Own 45:23

2y ago45:23

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In this episode we discuss Hashi Mohamed`s latest book A Home of One`s Own, where we discuss his own past suffering of housing security and his reflections of the housing crisis from his professional background as a planning barrister. In the book Hashi discusses how the voice of the very people who one day might benefit from homes being built are …

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Episode 11: From NIMBY to YIMBY 48:45

2y ago48:45

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On this episode of the #PricedOutPodcast we interview Tim Lund on his journey from NIMBY to YIMBY. We uncover what it is like inside some of the most NIMBY organisations out there and how someone with such an affection for the countryside can also say "Yes in My Back Yard". Don't miss out on this uniquely insightful exposé. #PricedOutPodcast Hosts:…

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Episode 10: Planning's Secret Heros? 52:39

2y ago52:39

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This time on the #PricedOutPodcast we talk to Paul Smith, Managing Director of the Strategic Land Group about the world of land promotion - the most important development industry you've never heard of! Land promotion is an industry most of us may never have heard of but it's crucial to making sure sites get permission and new homes are delivered. …

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Episode 9: How zoning broke the American city, with Nolan Gray 1:00:37

2y ago1:00:37

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The #PricedOutPodcast is back! This time we talk to M. Nolan Gray about his new book: Arbitrary Lines, How Zoning Broke the American City We cover everything from the history of zoning up to the present day and beyond. We ask where did it all go so wrong and can we do anything about it? Nolan Gray is the research director for our friends over at Ca…

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Episode 7: The planning system in the courts, with Zack Simons 1:00:04

3y ago1:00:04

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In this episode we talk to Zack Simons, planning barrister at Landmark Chambers, and blogger at planoraks.com, about how planning policy and local support/opposition play out in the courts, as well as discussing the green belt (a lot!). #PricedOutPodcast Hosts: Reuben Young, Affordable Homes Lead, PricedOut Chris Worrall, Editor of Redbrick blog Su…

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Episode 8: Councils' role in building homes, with Cllr Shama Tatler 49:25

3y ago49:25

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We talk to Councillor Shama Tatler, Lead Member for Regeneration & Property at Brent Council. We cover the levers councils have to build homes, councils' role in the planning system, neighbourhood plans, and the very successful regeneration scheme at Wembley Park - the largest build-to-rent scheme in the UK. #PricedOutPodcast Hosts: Reuben Young, A…

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Episode 5: Private developers and the homebuilding model, with Philip Barnes 38:06

3y ago38:06

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In this episode we talk to Philip Barnes, Director of Land & Planning at homebuilder Barratt. We cover the developer business model, landbanking, barriers to developers building homes, and how much democratisation should be present in the planning system. #PricedOutPodcast Hosts: Reuben Young, Affordable Homes Lead, PricedOut Chris Worrall, Editor …

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Episode 6: Planning and zoning in the US, with Dr Emily Hamilton 40:58

3y ago40:58

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We are joined by Emily Hamilton, leading thinker in urban economics and land-use policy and Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center, George Mason University. We discuss the opportunities and pitfalls associated with zonal planning systems, the YIMBY movement in the US and the UK, gentrification, and more! #PricedOutPodcast Hosts: Reuben Young…

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Episode 4: Delivering affordable homes, with Dr Stanimira Milcheva 45:29

3+ y ago45:29

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The fourth and final episode of PricedOut's podcast series on how to solve the housing crisis. This week we're joined by Dr Stanimira Milcheva, associate professor in Real Estate and Infrastructure Finance at the University College London. Stani's recent research has looked at how government can deliver more affordable homes with the same level of …

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Episode 3: Housing affordability and property taxes, with Prof Christine Whitehead 42:29

3+ y ago42:29

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The third episode of PricedOut's four-part podcast series on how to solve the housing crisis. This week we're joined by Christine Whitehead, Emeritus Professor of Housing Economics and Deputy Director at LSE London. Christine is an internationally renowned economist and has recently published her book "Understanding Affordability: The Economics of …

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Episode 2: The private rented sector, with Alicia Kennedy 50:03

3+ y ago50:03

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The second episode of PricedOut's four-part podcast series on how to solve the housing crisis. This week we're joined by Alicia Kennedy, director of Generation Rent and peer in the House of Lords. We talk about experiences in the rental market, professionalising the sector, deposits, landlord licensing, and whether there are too many landlords! #Pr…

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Episode 1: Planning reform, with Lord Bob Kerslake 47:04

4y ago47:04

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PricedOut launches its four-part series on how to solve the housing crisis. The first episode features special guest Lord Bob Kerslake, former head of the civil service, discussing government's controversial new reforms for the planning system. #PricedOutPodcast Hosts: Reuben Young, Director of PricedOut Anya Martin, Head of Policy at PricedOut Chr…

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EP: 40: Special Edition: Nikki Williams Returns 33:44

5y ago33:44

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Well, we are back sooner than expected. That's because Nikki Williams, the focus of our documentary Priced Out (2017) and our first film NorthEast Passage (2002) has returned to Portland. If you saw Priced Out the documentary, you know that Nikki moved to Dallas, Texas (spoiler alert) at the end of the film is a quest to find a "healthy black commu…

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EP: 39: Gentrification, a Rebel Alliance, and a Tale of Two Cities 29:05

5y ago29:05

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Portland, Ore. and Long Beach Calif, are similar and at the same time very different. Portland is known as the "whitest city in America" while Long Beach has long been the country’s most diverse. The two mid-sized, West Coast cities have historically had no rent control and no restrictions on landlord evictions. When the housing boom hit in 2015, b…

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EP 38: Cage Match: Outlawing Single-Family Housing in Portland and Across Oregon 55:23

5y ago55:23

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Listen in to our first ever Priced Out Podcast debate! Meg Hanson is a data activist and historic preservation advocate. Michael Andersen is a Senior Researcher at Sightlines Institute. We've interviewed both of these excellent folks on the show in the past (see below). Today's edition is a grudge match debate about a City of Portland and statewide…

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EP 37: Priced Out on Oregon Public Broadcasting July 2, at 9 pm 14:21

5y ago14:21

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This is a short episode, as we gear up for the release of an audio documentary on Long Beach, California. Cornelius talks about the upcoming Oregon Public Broadcasting premiere of Priced Out the documentary, some local screenings and throws shade on the OTHER "Priced Out." Andru talks about his son's graduation. And no one talks about the X-Men. OP…

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EP: 36: Your Houseless Neighbors and Ending Homelessness 50:55

5y ago50:55

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This episode is part of a new occasional series we're calling Getting to Know You. Andru and Cornelius talk about the issues from their own personal experience. Andru was a homeless outreach worker in Tulsa for many years and Cornelius is from a part of NJ that has recently been lauded for "ending homelessness" or achieving what is called "function…

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EP: 35: Panel: “Portland’s Black Community is Actually Growing” 37:24

5y ago37:24

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This episode is a panel discussion for the Society of Applied Anthropology with podcast co-host Cornelius Swart and activist, and entrepreneur Stephen Green. Stephen was featured in Priced Out, the documentary, and was the interviewed on a previous podcast [EP: 32] about black business and the black middle class’s role in gentrification. At the pan…

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EP 34: The Tough Latina and the Racist Landlord: Tales from Long Beach, Calif. [occasional series] 39:36

5y ago39:36

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Cynthia Macias grew up in the black and Latino neighborhoods of Long Beach, California. It was an idyllic "hood" growing up. But as an adult, she led a harrowing and heartbreaking life filled with domestic violence and housing discrimination. But Cynthia became a fighter and a housing activist instead of a victim. By the time she was confronted wit…

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EP 33: Listener's Choice Show: What City Should We Cover Next? 24:44

5+ y ago24:44

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We are mid-season here at Priced Out and your hosts Andru and Cornelius what to hear what city you think we should be covering. Andru and Cornelius talk about their recent travels and the gentrification that they've seen in a bunch of places including Cartagena, Colombia, Kansas City, Missouri, and Vancouver, British Colombia. Listen in and see wha…

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EP 32: The Black Entrepreneur's View of Gentrification 1:00:25

5+ y ago1:00:25

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Stephen Green is featured in our documentary Priced Out, but not nearly enough. Born in a suburb of Portland, Stephen moved into the heart of Oregon's black community when he started a family. An economist, venture capitalist and activist, Stephen has worked in both government and in the private sector. He oversaw property acquisition for the City …

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Ep 31: Gypsies, Neo-Liberals, and Transylvania: Gentrifying Romania 49:41

5+ y ago49:41

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Cluj-Napoca is a historic city of about 300,000 residents in northeast Romania. The city is considered the unofficial capital of Transylvania and it contains the country’s largest free university. Since the fall of communism in the 1990s, Romania's housing stock has been re-privatized. That's created the first generation of renters in 50 years whil…

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EP 30: Panel: Light Rail, Rent Control and Displacement 45:26

5+ y ago45:26

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Join us for a live recording of a panel discussion about the threat by a mass transit project poses to the working class, and minority residents of Tigard, Oregon. Tigard is a suburb immediately to the southwest of Portland. There is a large streetcar project (known as light rail) planned for the area. As viewers of Priced Out (the documentary) kno…

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EP:29: Black Men Who Think Portland’s Great 1:00:31

5+ y ago1:00:31

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Donte Moss, T. Walker, and Brad Simmons are three young black men from North Carolina, and they think Portland is great. You don’t hear that kind of message too often and certainly not on this show. So, for Black History Month, we’re happy to share what these energetic and positive young men have to say. Moss, a former defensive end for the Tar Hee…

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EP: 28: Statewide Rent Control in Oregon: Too Far or Not Far Enough? 38:23

5+ y ago38:23

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After a five-year struggle, [documented in part in Priced Out (the documentary)] housing activists are getting the impossible. The Oregon Legislature is poised to be the first in the nation to impose rent control on an entire state. Coming on the heels of a housing crisis that scorched Portland and other cities with double-digit rent increases, man…

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EP 27: The Language of Gentrification [Part 2] 37:57

5+ y ago37:57

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Welcome to Season 2 of the Priced Out Podcast. People use a lot of different terms when referring to gentrification. What’s the differences between revitalization, gentrification and a housing crisis? Why can't the government build affordable housing to compensate communities of color for years of housing discrimination? This is a part two of a con…

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EP 26: Opportunity Zones. Holiday Break. What's Ahead for Season 2 31:20

5+ y ago31:20

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Happy Holidays from the #PricedOut #podcast. We're wrapping up Season 1 and our first year as a podcast. It's been awesome and thank you for your support. In this conversation between Andru and Cornelius, Andru unwraps a present! Cornelius begs. Andru talks about black comic books. And we promise we will look/sound less janky next year. We also pre…

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EP 25: "There's Money in Poverty." How the Real Estate Game is Played 42:30

5+ y ago42:30

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On Episode 25 we interview multifamily real estate investment broker Ru Budhi. He is a Filipino-American investment agent who worked at firms like Norris Stevens during the Portland's housing crisis.He understands how apartment buildings and condos get financed and why. He’s going to explain why we are having a housing crisis from the investor's po…

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EP 24: Root Shock and the Emotional Impact of Gentrification 46:00

5+ y ago46:00

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We talk with Michelle Lewis about the emotional and psychological impacts of gentrification and displacement known as Root Shock. Lewis is a mental health counselor who works specifically with the African American community in Portland, Ore. She was featured in our documentary Priced Out. In the film, she talked about losing her home in the subprim…

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EP 23: Fighting Gentrification with Historic Preservation 46:25

5+ y ago46:25

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An interview with Portland data activist Megan Hanson. Hanson is a complex data analyst who works with logistics software giant Oracle. After seeing alarming rent hikes and a wave of demolitions in her neighborhood, she started to investigate the Portland zoning code on her free time. She found that the State of Oregon required a public notificatio…

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EP 22: "I gentrified the neighborhood." Interview with Black Realtor [Pt 2] 53:31

5+ y ago53:31

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We get into the weeds of neighborhood history once again with Fred Stewart, Portland's most controversial black activist. He grew up in Northeast Portland and has been a realtor in the neighborhood since the drug war days. In this the second part of two interviews, Fred talks about when he got into real estate during the depths of the 1980s Drug Wa…

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EP 21: Vote, Stupid! Midterm Elections & Portland Housing 36:24

5+ y ago36:24

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This edition of the Priced Out Podcast Cornelius preaches on Abortion, the NRA and voting whether you like the results or not. The podcast endorses candidates and some vitally important ballot measures before the voters next month. Special guest Kari Lyons from the Welcome Home Coalition talks about the housing bond Measure 26-199 and a Measure 102…

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EP: 20: [Special Edition] Illegal AirBnBs Steal 1,500 Housing Units from Portland 36:15

6y ago36:15

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Illegal Airbnbs could pull up to 1,500 housing units from Portland each year despite a new city clampdown, according data from the website InsideAirbnb. Cornelius and his friend Thacher Schmid just published an investigative report in Portland Mercury about illegal Airbnbs and their impact on the Portland housing crisis. In this special edition pod…

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EP 19: The Language of Gentrification [pt 1] 44:30

6y ago44:30

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What does the word gentrification actually mean? Did you know in the original definition of the word, gentrification it is always bad? It's never a good thing. What is "affordable housing?" versus "public housing?" Did you know the terms refer to very specific kind of housing that receive differing levels of taxpayer subsidy? Learn more about the l…

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EP 18: Journalism and Behind the Scenes of Priced Out (the documentary) 55:30

6y ago55:30

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This edition of Priced Out: The Podcast is a discussion about the journalism behind the making of Priced Out (the documentary). Topics ranged from dealing with controversial sources, navigating government "obfuscation" and storylines in which both the government and the voters themselves are partially to blame. The talk was recorded at Migration Br…

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EP 17: How a Black Realtor Sees Gentrification [pt 1] 43:14

6y ago43:14

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Fred Stewart may be Portland's most controversial black activist. He grew up in Northeast Portland and has been a realtor in the neighborhood since the drug war days. He's twice run unsuccessfully for Portland City Council. His views are unconventional, and his style is confrontational. He claims to be a Democrat who continually blasts "white liber…

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EP 16: The Battle for Rent Control in Long Beach, Calif. 24:00

6y ago24:00

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This week we do a stylistic turn inspired by NPR shows like This American Life in order to cover the battle to get rent control on the ballot in Long Beach, California.Many people don't know that Long Beach is the sevenths largest city in California. Overshadowed by LA to the north and Orange County to the south, Long Beach is 60 percent renters - …

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EP 15: Nikki Williams: Racism, Gentrification and Black Community in Dallas 42:59

6y ago42:59

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It’s been three years since Nikki Williams wrapped up her last interview for the documentary Priced Out. At that time, she had just moved to Dallas, Texas. She was fed up with Portland, Oregon, and what she called its “color blind“ and “passive-aggressive” racism. She was emotionally devastated by how her black community had been “obliterated” by g…

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EP 14. Detroit: The fall of Capitalism, Democracy, and The Return of the Kings. 58:43

6y ago58:43

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Detroit is like a failed state. A place where capitalism has failed for half a century and where even local democracy collapsed after the city’s government was handed over to a federal manager. Much has been written about the city’s epic slow-motion decline and its sudden rise from the ashes. On the Priced Out Podcast we talk about how Detroit’s tu…

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EP 13: Gentrification Through the Eyes of a Gangster (former) 1:02:01

6y ago1:02:01

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Today is the first part in a new series called LEFT OUT of Priced Out. We are going to cover a lot of issues, points of view, and stories that were not included in our 2017 documentary on gentrification Priced Out. In Episode 13, we are going to roll back, beyond Priced Out, to our first film, the 2002 gentrification documentary, NorthEast Passage:…

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EP 12: Cornelius schools the nation's realtors 39:18

6y ago39:18

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This week on the Priced Out podcast, a live recording of Cornelius Swart at Turn On, an annual lecture series sponsored the real estate branding and marketing firm 1000 Watt. The company brings in hundreds of their real estate clients from across the nation, include companies like Berkshire Hathaway, to wine them and dine them and treat them to two…

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EP 11: St Louis is UnGentrified 45:59

6y ago45:59

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Episode 11 of Priced Out the Podcast is about the great city of St. Louis, MO. The city is a wonderful place with great people and a lot of new potential. There is new energy and growth going on, but the city has a long and troubling past and continues to be challenged by vast poverty, discrimination and neglect. We talk with two residents Rebeca C…

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EP 10: What is Zoning? And the Residential Infill Strategy. 44:31

6y ago44:31

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Zoning determines what can and cannot be built on a given piece of property. It's a powerful tool that has been used to promote segregation, concentrate poverty and spur investment in neighborhoods across the country for the last 100 years.The stuff of epic NIMBY battles, this dry subject comes alive thanks to special guest Michael Andersen, a seni…

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EP. 9: How do filmmaker's portray gentrifying communities? 50:53

6y ago50:53

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This week on the Priced Out Podcast we discuss how filmmakers portray the character of a gentrifying community. The discussion was at NW Documentary in Portland, Oregon, after the screening of a film about gentrification in Detroit entitled Last Days of Chinatown.https://www.facebook.com/events/58403...The discussion is with Last Days director Nico…

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EP 8: Election and Housing MegaPod [ Part 2 ] 1:02:04

6y ago1:02:04

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This edition of the Priced Out we have an hour-long show packed with conversations about housing and the upcoming election in Oregon.We talk with Rachel Monahan, housing and City Hall Reporter for the Willamette Week. We talk about Portland's housing relocation fee, landlords in the legislature and the primary battle of Democrat Rod Monroe.Part 2 o…

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EP. 7: The Gentrification of Nashville 56:00

6y ago56:00

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Nashville has been described as the South's New Metropolis and an "it" city.In 2016, 100 people a day moved to this city known as the capital of the country music industry.Nashville's growth roughly parallels what has happened in Portland, Oregon, a formerly sleepy, midsized town on the West Coast now congested with new development, residents, and …

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EP. 6: Gentrification in Boston 1:40:21

6y ago1:40:21

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In this podcast we discuss stories of displacement, the negative health impacts inherent with displacement, Portland’s right-to-return policy, the creative class and activism in Portland, and the Fair Housing Act. City Life/Vida Urbanahttp://www.clvu.org/https://www.pricedoutmovie.com/--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/sho…

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EP. 5 Gentrification, Skid Row and Downtown LA 30:00

6y ago30:00

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Join Cornelius as he has an in-depth discussion with John Malpede about gentrification in and around L.A.'s Skid Row. Malpede is the founding artistic director of the Los Angeles Poverty Department. In recent years downtown LA has made a spectacular comeback. The area is now brimming with new museums, expensive condos, and lavishly restored movie p…

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EP. 4 : 2018 Ore. Legislature and the Housing Crisis Part 1 25:01

6y ago25:01

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Join host Cornelius Swart for part 1of an in-depth conversation with Oregon State Rep. Alissa Keny-Guyer of House District 46. They discuss upcoming bills to help fund affordable housing, "rent control"l vs "rent stabilization," coming to the defense of state senator Rod Monroe and more.Priced Out: The Documentaryhttps://www.pricedoutmovie.com/http…

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