Everybody Gets Pie
A political podcast about abundance 🥧
- "Bad answers beat no answers." Donald Trump is an example of that. We can't hold back new policies because they don't perfectly align with everything we want. We have to be laser-focused on delivering results.
- The Biden administration's fatal flaw was taking too long to deliver results, and that showed in the election results. For government to be effective, it must also be responsive, and that means delivering on quicker timelines.
- Governing isn’t about ideology. It’s about solving problems. Neera Tanden, president and CEO of @americanprogress.bsky.social, dives into her tenure during the Biden administration and what worked and what didn't.
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- In a supply-constrained market, 50-year mortgages won't solve the issue. In fact, they might make things worse. For an average of $100 in savings, assuming you have the same interest rate (and you very well might not!), you lose out on building equity. Michael Negron's verdict: gimmick.
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- The rent is too damn high. And for renters in buildings with property management software, it's even higher by about $800. The DOJ has filed a class action against RealPage, alleging that their way of setting rent is a form of price fixing.
- Let's get rid of red tape around affordable housing, starting with the requirement for a steel chassis at the bottom of a manufactured home. This outdated HUD rule allows a home to be moved, but most homes are not moved these days. Michael Negron discusses this and more on our new episode, out now!
- Spotify link here: open.spotify.com/episode/5CDn...
- If people like a policy, it sticks around. If people don't know about it, it expires. We need to account for popularity when designing public policy to ensure it keeps working like it's supposed to.
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- How do we enact real, progressive change? Get a supermajority in the Senate. Adam Jentleson is talking 55, 56 votes, not a slim majority that could die with just one person refusing to vote yes. youtube.com/shorts/MtN37...
- What if residents got paid when their city actually built homes? We talked with @adamjentleson.bsky.social of Searchlight Institute about “growth dividends” and why incentives beat lectures in housing politics www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6y-...
- If you build it, they will come...sit in hours in traffic. Jake Berman explains why induced demand means that we can never build enough lanes for cars to solve the gridlock problem.
- This also explains why my apartment is cluttered again even after last year's decluttering. Why do I have 24 different kinds of tea?? Induced demand.
- Transit will only compete with cars if we design it to. If we prioritize single-occupancy vehicles over 50 people on a bus, the choice is made for us.
- Spotify episode out now: open.spotify.com/episode/4yGr...
- Fixed budgets. Public buy-in. Clear plans. Infrastructure works better when the order is right. Jake Berman discusses the difference between Europe and America's transit systems and more on our newest episode, out now!
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- Almost every state is facing a housing crisis due to the failure to build more housing fast enough, driving up affordability and costs. Rep. Josh Harder dives into the bipartisan effort aimed at solving this problem.
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