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Nobody's Home

By: American Banker
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  • Housing blight — concentrated areas of vacant properties in cities, rural areas and suburbs — is associated with everything from poverty to crime to health disparities. But governments seem powerless to turn it around. We're finding out why. A special 10-part podcast series by American Banker.
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Episodes
  • Ep. 10: Starfish Solutions: What can we do if we try?

    Ep. 10: Starfish Solutions: What can we do if we try?
    Oct 21 2018

    In the series finale, we examine how to get people who aren’t directly affected by vacant housing to care about finding a solution. How do you focus policymakers on a problem with so many different moving parts?
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    31 mins
  • Ep. 9: Marshall Plan: How to Fix Vacant Housing

    Ep. 9: Marshall Plan: How to Fix Vacant Housing
    Oct 14 2018

    If housing blight costs money, renovating vacant housing and creating new affordable housing also costs money. Where might that investment come from? An examination of community land trusts and the Community Reinvestment Act.
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    45 mins
  • Ep. 8: Sweat Equity: What Does it Cost to Build a Home?

    Ep. 8: Sweat Equity: What Does it Cost to Build a Home?
    Oct 7 2018

    The crisis in affordable housing has its roots in the high cost of building entry-level single-family homes. But why does it cost so much to build a house? And what did previous generations do to build affordable housing?
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    23 mins
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