#social-housing
20 episodes
#3733: What Number Do You Call When It's Not an Emergency?
CAHOOTS, STAR, and the fragmented landscape of mobile crisis teams that fill the gap between 911 and doing nothing.
#3721: Why Money Feels Wrong in Human Relationships
The feeling that money degrades human interactions isn’t irrational — it’s a real insight supported by decades of research.
#3709: How Scotland and Toronto Rate Landlords
How transparency mechanisms in Scotland and Toronto are changing landlord behavior without price controls.
#3576: Living at the Four Seasons: The Hotel as Permanent Home
What happens when a hotel stay becomes permanent? The legal line is 30 days — and hotels fight hard to keep you from crossing it.
#3550: Israel’s Rental Jungle: Gathering War Stories for Reform
How to gather tenant war stories and push for tenancy reform in Israel—without getting crushed by the landlord lobby.
#3549: Mom-and-Pop vs. Corporate Landlords: Who’s Worse?
When landlords scale up, do tenants fare better or worse? The data reveals a surprising answer.
#3469: When Landlords Make You Sign Away Your Rights
How Germany built a system to stop landlords from using unenforceable contract clauses — and why Israel and the US still struggle.
#3418: The Picture on the Wall: Renting with Dignity
How deposit disputes and administrative burdens turn tenants into guests in their own homes — and what other countries do differently.
#3180: How to Turn Housing Rage Into Real Power in Jerusalem
Grassroots organizing strategies for turning frustration over luxury towers into real municipal leverage.
#3174: Public Housing in America: A State-by-State Breakdown
How public housing actually works — and why your experience depends entirely on which state you live in.
#3172: Housing as Anchor vs. Safety Net
Is a universal guarantee of housing, food, and healthcare different from existing welfare?
#3165: A Floor That Holds: Housing, Food, and Job Guarantees Explained
What happens when nobody can fall through the floor? The evidence from real experiments might surprise you.
#3160: The Five Pathways to Homelessness (You’re Wrong About One)
26,000 people tracked across 50 cities. Five distinct pathways. One surprising number: 40-50% are employed.
#3136: 5000 Years of Prisons: From Debt to Mass Incarceration
From Mesopotamia to El Salvador — how prisons evolved from debt collection to the modern punishment system.
#3108: What Happens When Rent Outlasts Your Paycheck?
Millions of seniors face a retirement cliff as lifelong renting becomes the new normal. Can policy save them?
#2853: What the Nordics Actually Struggle With
Beyond bike lanes and pastries—what Sweden, Denmark, and Norway have genuinely figured out, and where their model cracks.
#2785: Why Israeli Renters Pay for a Landlord's Broker
Why Israeli tenants pay brokers hired by landlords—and what other countries do differently.
#2601: When Your Lease Is a Gamble: Rent, Stability, and Community
How tenant protections in Germany and Singapore create community—and why Israel's system destroys it.
#499: Gentle Urbanism: Why Vienna Works and Jerusalem Struggles
From "whispering asphalt" to social housing, discover how Vienna creates a human-centric city while others struggle with noise and grit.
#387: When Cities Become the Landlord: Emergency Repair Programs That Work
Explore how cities like NYC and Vienna protect tenants from landlord neglect and why housing should be treated as a public utility.