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The housing crisis: how did we get into this mess? This video looks at the last 100 years of housing policy to try to understand how.

Resources on this topic:

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w18852/w18852.pdf
https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/research/files/harvard_jchs_homeownership_rate_layton_2021.pdf
https://journals-sagepub-com.calpoly.idm.oclc.org/doi/epdf/10.1177/1538513205278372
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2010/03/18/the-return-of-the-multi-generational-family-household/
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2022/03/24/the-demographics-of-multigenerational-households/
https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/dl-transcript/m00-1_alexander.pdf
https://www.marketplace.org/2018/10/31/why-do-we-have-30-year-mortgage-anyway/
https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w18821/w18821.pdf
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS
https://shelterforce.org/2022/08/08/what-is-the-financialization-of-housing/
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02673037.2020.1762847
https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/rental-housing-unaffordability-how-did-we-get-here
https://calmatters.org/housing/2024/03/institutional-investors-corporate-landlords/_
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/8/4/93
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/09516298211044852?casa_token=_ETy6ZWc0YMAAAAA:Be2fsf2Y6KPNBb2bIxAaPXe-NzcmaLoHo0dyDOlw9s5Tm9BF3DvQN0RUoRgBwVLD-AFmjw0imnV7gQ
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/26895803.pdf?casa_token=hxb25C-6iegAAAAA:tVWP2e_FoXhGNTgl7XT4dltFxzpC9Z9VOVBO3MvssvxN5vLAOWGBHzBqXV7MwOV9PWa-yyVQg9ir1qJku_SgctaeAr4gfoIszEsbrb4t_Vrx0nCRwdKQ

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