The federal government should incentivize municipalities to speed up building permits and reduce development charges, or else lose federal infrastructure funding.

“I'm going to say to the Mayors you're not getting Federal infrastructure money until you slash your development charges speed up your permits”

The city should build affordable housing to accommodate residents being displaced by rising costs in Austin.

“what they're going to need to do is build affordable housing they're going to need to build affordable housing that's what's going to need to happen”

He asserts that large private equity firms like BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard are deliberately purchasing single-family homes to control the market and reduce individual ownership.

“these three giant companies BlackRock State Street and Vanguard who own who all own each other you know BlackRock has 10 trillion dollars under man these are all private Equity companies yeah the biggest companies in the world and they and they are they own I think they own uh 88 of the s p 500s”

Government should adopt a more direct, state-led approach to house building, similar to the provision of schools or hospitals.

“you seem to be saying we should revert to a much more top-down government-led building program”

The housing affordability crisis is fundamentally a problem of artificially constrained supply, which could be solved by reducing excessive zoning regulations and legal barriers to new development.

“In MA economics oneon-one the only thing that happens when demand goes like this and Supply stays flat is prices go to the Moon prices are going to the moon and it's not just a problem for Los Angeles it's a problem for Democrats Nationwide”

Eliminating homelessness is financially feasible and possible through direct housing programs, improved wages, and better mental health services, rather than expensive punitive measures.

“Real success would mean dismantling the very agencies, contracts, and payrolls that have grown fat off the permanence of the homelessness problem.”

He believes that housing issues are a widespread problem across many places.

“this seems to be a problem across the board in a lot of places though with the housing it seems like nobody's able to just buy land”

He views viral videos of jungle home construction as likely faked or propaganda.

“well it's like a like it's this fantasy world people like live in now where they're like we could have this and it's like first of all that's probably fake I don't they're highly produced by the CCP”