The Housing Type America Banned — Then Got a Homelessness Crisis

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

Opublikowano: 2026-09-15

America once had millions of single-room-occupancy units — the cheapest legal housing in the country — and cities spent decades tearing them down. Ryan Puzycki calls this lost category the "banished bottom," and traces the rise of chronic homelessness to almost the same years those units disappeared. He also argues family flight, not average rent, is the real measure of whether a city is failing. Dave presses him on Wall Street buying up single-family homes — Ryan says the outrage is mostly overblown. Timestamps: (00:00) Alex sets up – the housing type cities erased on purpose(00:21) The banished bottom – cheap housing America ch...