95. Rick Rybeck - 2023 Annual Conference: Why is Housing so Unaffordable? Causes and Solutions

Today our discussion comes from our most recent annual conference: Why is Housing so Unaffordable? Causes and Solutions. These next 2 episodes will conclude our annual conference content. We hope you enjoyed it, and we’re looking forward to seeing you at next year’s conference. We were joined today by Rick Rybeck. Rick is the founder and Director of Just Economics LLC, a firm founded in order to guide policy toward helping families. Their goal is to promote job creation, affordable housing, transportation efficiency, and sustainable development.   Traditional solutions to the affordable housing crisis have yielded little results. Simply throwing more money at the problem won’t help. Our guest today offers concrete solutions that have yet to be tried, that I think could make a positive impact. Often people with ambitious policy ideas don’t have a plan for implementing them, leaving many people unconvinced. However, today’s guest offers not just solutions, but ways to implement these solutions as well. Mr. Rybeck received his master's in real estate and urban development from American University and his JD from the American University’s Washington College of Law.   Together we discussed the politics of a land-value tax, why it isn’t an additional tax for everyone, and what its implementation would look like from a legislative perspective. To check out more of our content, including our research and policy tools, visit our website: https://www.hgsss.org/