{"podcast":{"title":"The Messy City Podcast","slug":"the-messy-city-podcast-6070040","podcast_index_feed_id":6070040,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/1271500.rss","website_url":"https://kevinklinkenberg.substack.com/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/1271500/7260785aa3e48f4ea76ebcd046c98a31.jpg","author":"Kevin Klinkenberg","episode_count":126,"summary":"Embracing change, uncertainty and local initiative for our cities and towns","last_synced_at":"2026-07-29T02:19:59.713844+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-messy-city-podcast-6070040"},"episode":{"title":"Is the Housing \"Crisis\" Real?","slug":"is-the-housing-crisis-real","published_at":"2026-07-28T13:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-messy-city-podcast-6070040/is-the-housing-crisis-real","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-messy-city-podcast-6070040","url":"https://kevinklinkenberg.substack.com/p/housing-crisis","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/208750209/c399d8b8c552795f31206b2a505fbe6d.mp3","summary":"I get personal in this episode, in order to ask questions about the nature of what is called the “housing crisis.” Are we all just doom-pilling way too much? As a case study, I talk through the life and history of my parents, and discuss whether or not their life and lifestyle is still available today. I discuss house sizes, mortgage rates, lifestyle choices, lifestyle inflation, and more. Find more content on The Messy City on Kevin’s Substack page . Music notes: all songs by low standards, ca. 2010. Videos here . If you’d like a CD for low standards, message me and you can have one for only $5. Intro: “ Why Be Friends ” Outro: “ Fairweather Friend ” AI Transcript Introduction Welcome back to The Messy City Podcast. This is Kevin Klinkenberg. I’m going to do something a little different today and just talk without a guest about the topic of housing in particular and how it ties into a few other kind of hobby courses of mine. Why Challenge the Housing Narrative Really what I want to spend some time doing is taking a contrarian view of how we talk about the so-called housing crisis. And in one sense, this is kind of fun for me to do. One of the things I really loved about my father is when we would have our discussions or debates in the family about various things that were going on, he would often take an opposite view of Almost just for the sport of it. And the truth is, there are a lot of times he was so good at it, you didn’t really know if he felt that way or not. Because he could do really well to argue multiple sides of an argument. And that was really a lot of fun. It was an education for me. It’s something I wish more people would just do generally and try to see an issue from multiple perspectives and try to steel man different perspectives or perspectives tha…","meta_description":"I get personal in this episode, in order to ask questions about the nature of what is called the “housing crisis.” Are we all just doom-pilling way too mu…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2650,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-messy-city-podcast-6070040/episodes/is-the-housing-crisis-real/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-messy-city-podcast-6070040/is-the-housing-crisis-real.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}