Abundance - A Metropolitan Abundance Project Podcast

Welcome back to the Abundance Podcast! In this episode, M. Nolan Gray chats with Jason Sorens . Jason is a Senior Research Fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research . He received his Ph. D. in political science from Yale University. Jason has been active in efforts to liberalize land-use regulation in New Hampshire and was the principal investigator on the New Hampshire Zoning Atlas ....

Welcome back to the Abundance Podcast! In this episode, M. Nolan Gray chats with Gary Winslett . Gary is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Middlebury College. He is a Senior Advisor for the Chamber of Progress and author of their Chamber's Democratic Cost-of-Living Agenda . For the last few years, he has been an advocate for more housing, particularly in Vermont.  In this episode, the...

Welcome back to the Abundance Podcast! In this episode, M. Nolan Gray chats with Christian Solorio . Solorio is an architect, affordable housing advocate, and former member of the Arizona legislature. He currently serves on the board for the Arizona Housing Coalition and Arizona Neighborhood Project . In this episode, they discuss the housing affordability challenges facing Phoenix, the rise of th...

Welcome back to the Abundance Podcast! In this episode, M. Nolan Gray and Ned Resnikoff chat with Jake Berman . Berman is a cartographer, artist, and lawyer.  In this episode, they chat about his new book, The Lost Subways of North America: A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What Might Have Been . Stay connected with the Metropolitan Abundance Project on Twitter , Bluesky , and Instagr...

Welcome back to the Abundance Podcast! In this episode, M. Nolan Gray , Aaron Eckhouse , and Gloria Magallanes chat with Colin Parent . Parent is a council member in La Mesa and a candidate for California’s 79th Assembly District. He leads Circulate San Diego .  Check out his campaign and recent research on the California Coastal Commission .  In this episode, they chat about his experience as a p...

Welcome back to the Abundance Podcast! In this episode, M. Nolan Gray chats with Anthony Breach . He is an associate director of the Centre for Cities, the leading think tank dedicated to improving the economies of the UK's largest cities and towns. Check out some of his recent work devolution , tax reform , and planning reform . In this episode, they chat about the state of housing affordabil...

Welcome back to the Abundance Podcast! In this episode, M. Nolan Gray and Ned Resnikoff chat with Richard Kahlenberg . He is an education scholar, Director of the American Identity Project, and Director of Housing Policy at the Progressive Policy Institute. He also has a new book out: Excluded: How Snob Zoning, Nimbyism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don't See .  In this episode, they chat...

Welcome back to the Abundance Podcast! In this episode, M. Nolan Gray and Ned Resnikoff chat with Anika Singh Lemar . She is a Clinical Professor of Law at Yale Law School where she teaches clinics that represent affordable housing developers, tenants, homeowners, small businesses, community development financial institutions, fair housing advocates, and cooperatives. In this episode, they chat ab...

Welcome back to the Abundance Podcast! In this episode, M. Nolan Gray and Brian Hanlon chat with Annemarie Gray . She is the Executive Director of Open New York, the state's leading grassroots pro-housing advocacy organization. In this episode, they prospects for YIMBY advocacy in New York City, both in the Big Apple and in Albany.  Stay connected with the Metropolitan Abundance Project on Twi...

Welcome back to the Abundance Podcast! In this episode, M. Nolan Gray and Ned Resnikoff chat with Jessica Trounstine . She is the Centennial Chair and Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University and the author of Segregation by Design: Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities . In this episode, they chat about how US cities became so segregated, and what policymakers can do abo...

In this episode, ⁠ M. Nolan Gray⁠⁠ chats with William Steichen and Trevor Stockinger, two of the coauthors on a brand new California YIMBY ⁠report⁠ : The Impact of Fees: Rethinking Local revenues for More Multifamily Housing . Over the past semester, Will, Trevor, and four others served as California YIMBY Research Fellows as part of their work toward a graduate degree. Stay connected with the ⁠⁠M...

Welcome back to the Abundance Podcast! In this episode, M. Nolan Gray chats with Anthony Gill . Anthony is an economic development professional and the write of Spokane Rising , an urbanist blog focused on ways make Spokane a better place to live. They’re joined in this episode by Robyn Leslie, the director for strategic partnerships at California YIMBY.  Stay connected with the Metropolitan Abund...

Welcome back to the Abundance Podcast! In this episode, M. Nolan Gray chats with Sarah Karlinsky . Sarah is the Research Director at the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley where she leads the development of the center’s research agenda. They’re joined in this episode by Robyn Leslie, the director for strategic partnerships at California YIMBY. In this episode, they chat about Sara...

Welcome back to the Abundance Podcast ! In this episode, M. Nolan Gray and Ned Resnikoff chat with Megan Kimble.  Megan is an investigative journalist and the author of Unprocessed. A former executive editor at The Texas Observer, Kimble has written about housing, transportation, and urban development for The New York Times, Texas Monthly, The Guardian, and Bloomberg CityLab. She lives in Austin,...

In this episode, Ned Resnikoff chats with Alexander Sahn. He is a Thomas J. Pearsall Fellow and an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he studies inequality in political participation, representation, and public policy, especially subnational governments in the United States. He was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for the...

This week, Nolan Gray and Ned Resnikoff chat with Stan Oklobdzija. Stan is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Tulane University and the Director of the Center for Public Policy Research at the Murphy Institute. His research focuses on housing policy, specifically how voters conceive of housing markets and how these perceptions influence the policies that local governments pursue. He pr...

This week, Nolan Gray chats with Ben Raderstorf. Ben is vice president of House Sacramento, an all volunteer grassroots pro-housing group in the California Capital region. In his day job, he's a pro-democracy advocate, but on nights and weekends he works to make his adopted hometown more affordable, liveable, walkable, bikeable and resilient. Find him on twitter at @braderstorf . In this episo...

Welcome back to Abundance! In this episode, Nolan Gray and Ned Resnikoff chat with Danielle Allen. Allen is a professor of political philosophy, ethics, and public policy at Harvard University, and director of the Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation. She is also the author of the recent book,  Justice By Means of Democracy. In this episode, they discuss power-sharing liberalism, abundance progressi...

Welcome back to Abundance! In this episode, California YIMBY research director Nolan Gray chats with Henry Grabar. Henry is a journalist at Slate, where he writes about cities, and a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. In this episode, they discuss Grabar's brand new book, Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World , including why parking drives people nuts, the...

Welcome back to Abundance! In this episode, we discuss Housing Underproduction in California 2023 , a new report published by the California YIMBY Research Fund in collaboration with MapCraft. California YIMBY research director Nolan Gray is joined by Ian Carlton and Lacy Patterson, two members of the MapCraft team who helped to put this report together. In this episode, they discuss which parts o...

Welcome back to Abundance! In this episode, California YIMBY research director Nolan Gray chats with Emily Hamilton. Emily is a Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Urbanity Project at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, where she researches urban economics and land-use policy.  In this episode, they discuss the exciting reforms adopted in Montana this year, why small lots are a...

Welcome back to Abundance! In this episode, California YIMBY research director Nolan Gray chats with Sarah Anzia. She’s an associate professor of public policy and political science at the University of California Berkeley. Anzia is the author of Local Interests: Politics, Policy, and Interest Groups in US City Governments . Along with California YIMBY policy director Ned Resnikoff, they discuss h...

In this episode, California YIMBY research director Nolan Gray chats with Emily Jacobson. She’s the inaugural research fellow for the California YIMBY Education Fund and the author of The Dysfunctional Metropolis: Reforming Los Angeles's Land Use Planning and Entitlement . She recently earned a Master of Public Policy from UC Berkeley. They’re joined in this episode by Sarah Karlinsky, a senio...

In this episode, California YIMBY research director Nolan Gray chats with Francis Fukuyama. He’s the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, a faculty member of FSI's Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, and the also Director of Stanford's Ford Dorsey Master's in International Policy. They’re join...

In this episode, California YIMBY research director M. Nolan Gray chats with Rick Cole. He’s the Chief Deputy Controller for the City of LA, where he oversees the key accounting, paymaster and audit functions of the nation's second largest city.  Rick has been all over the place in Southern California governance—he was previously a Deputy Mayor in Los Angeles, the city manager of Azusa, Ventur...