Ep 102: Minimum Standards vs. Affordability with Benjamin Schneider (Incentives Series pt. 5)

We’ve been grappling with trade-offs between stricter building codes and declining affordability for over 100 years. Benjamin Schneider helps us trace the history. This is part 5 of our series on misaligned incentives in housing policy.Read about the Lewis Center's work at lewis.ucla.edu.Follow our Substack at uclahousingvoice.substack.com.Email Shane at at [email protected] and follow him on Bluesky and LinkedIn.Show notes:Schneider, B. (2025). The Unfinished Metropolis: Igniting the City-Building Revolution. Island Press.Schneider, B. (2025 September 22). 106 Years Ago She Predicted Today’s Housing Crisis. What if we’d Listened? Planetizen. Wood, E. E. (1919). The Housing of the Unskilled Wage Earner: America's Next Problem. The MacMillan Company.Riis, J. A. (1890). How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York. Charles Scribner’s Sons.A brief history of tenements in the US.