Ep 112: 'Stuck' Book Club pt. 1 with Attorney General Rob Bonta

We're doing a three-part book club series on Yoni Appelbaum's 'Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity.' This is episode one, covering chapters 1 through 4. In the second half of the show, California Attorney General Rob Bonta joins us to talk about connections between the book's themes and his work enforcing housing and immigration law.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:Appelbaum, Y. (2025). Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity. Penguin Random House.Stan’s substack, Everyone is Welcome.Housing Voice episode 61: Homelessness is a Housing Problem with Gregg Colburn.Housing Voice episode 101: Beyond Zoning with John Zeanah and Andre D. Jones (Incentives Series pt. 4).99% Invisible Breakdown of the Power Broker.Elmendorf, C. S., Nall, C., & Oklobdzija, S. (2025). The folk economics of housing. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 39(3), 45-66.Housing Voice episode 38: The Housing Supply–Migration–Income Relationship with Peter Ganong.Books: The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane JacobsThe Economy of Cities, Jane JacobsThe Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel WilkersonGolden Gates, Conor DoughertyAbundance, Ezra Klein and Derek ThompsonWhy Nothing Works, Marc DunkelmanPublic Citizens, Paul SabinAlbion’s Seed, David Hackett FischerThe Jungle, Upton SinclairPolarized by Degrees, Matt Grossman and David Hopkins