#social-housing
28 episodes
#4243: What to Call Politics That Actually Fixes Daily Life
A listener asks: what do you call a political outlook that prioritizes housing and cost of living over ideology?
#4224: The Exhaustion Premium: Why Tenants Don't Sue
Why knowing your rights isn't enough when the system is designed to wear you down.
#4168: What Landlords Fear: Reforming Israeli Rentals for Both Sides
The current system fails tenants and landlords alike. Here's what a fair compromise could look like.
#4047: Is the Ugly Israeli a Real Generation?
One renter's decade of bad landlords raises a bigger question about empathy, history, and generational change.
#4039: What Landlord Power Does to Human Empathy
Why does the landlord-tenant relationship so often turn cruel? The psychology and law behind the pattern.
#4034: How to Fix Israel's Broken Rental System
Six forced moves in ten years. Can one person build a movement to change Israel's broken rental system?
#3906: When Your Home Becomes a Recurring Stressor
Is forced relocation a form of trauma? What the data says about repeat moves and mental health.
#3812: The Hidden Cost of Unstable Housing
How constant moving affects your health, finances, and family — and what ancient nomads can teach us about rootlessness.
#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.