The Housing Crisis — Why Are the Rents Too Damn High and How “Human-Centered Capitalism” Can Help

This week I had the pleasure to talk to André Bueno, the founder of the real-estate investment company Bueno Group, whom I met through a #YangGang event in the Los Angeles area — he said he was “into housing” and saw one of my videos floating around somewhere so we started talking about it right away. What’s been going on in LA regarding the housing market, lately?

Note: This is my personal conversation with André and not part of any official YIMBY activist work.

People who work in the housing industry these days tend to get a lot of flak in the news (I suppose it doesn’t help that our current prez is a real-estate guy), but personally I’ve always found it insane that we spend so much time attacking the very people producing what we need: housing. There is pretty much universal agreement among both experts on the left and right that the lack of housing supply is what is driving up rents, especially among the middle-class, but yet we can’t seem to get it together long enough to actually solve the problem at its root.

The recent death of SB50 in California is a good example — NIMBYs hated it because it “threatened” to upzone their…