127. The Other Housing Crisis

For all the talk about America's seeming inability to build its way out of the housing affordability crisis, we have largely ignored the potential of our aging housing stock, often in less-desirable neighborhoods, to play a role in improving housing equity, through the unglamorous work of home repair. Todd Swanstrom, editor of "The Other Housing Crisis" and a professor at the University of Missouri - St. Louis discusses the overlooked housing crisis of deteriorating and abandoned homes, emphasizing the importance of repair and preservation in addressing affordability and community health.