Austin Built 3x More Housing. Families Left Anyway. (Full)

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

Opublikowano: 2026-09-17

Austin added new housing three times faster than the rest of the country for a decade — rents dropped below the national average, and young families left anyway, in numbers big enough that schools are now closing. Ryan Puzycki, who sits on Austin's zoning board, says outdated codes banned entire housing types — no fourplexes, no missing middle, no SROs. He traces the homelessness crisis straight back to America banning its cheapest housing type. Jerremy and Dave press him on BlackRock, Houston's fix, and what's next. Timestamps: (00:00) The core stat – why "build more" isn't fixing housing(01:13) Meet Ryan – the man...