Austin Slashed Rents to Record Lows. Families Left Anyway.

Podcast: Solving America's Problems · Jerremy Alexander Newsome & Dave Conley

Opublikowano: 2026-09-14

Austin added new housing three times faster than the rest of the country for a decade, and rents fell below the national average. Young families left anyway — enough that Austin's own schools are now closing for lack of kids. Ryan Puzycki sits on Austin's zoning board and says a decades-old code banned entire housing types, from fourplexes to corner stores mixed with apartments. He also ran a San Francisco preschool with a waitlist of hundreds, where teachers commuted 90 minutes each way just to afford rent. Timestamps: (00:00) The core stat – why "build more" isn't fixing housing(01:13) Meet Ryan...