Episode

8/13 Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State w/ Samuel Stein

August 13, 2019

Samuel Stein joins Sam to discuss his book, Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State. In this book, Stein shows how the $200T real estate industry has accounted for more than 60% of the global assets and how urban planning policy has enabled its tremendous growth.

On today’s show: Ainsley Earhardt says it’s great that kids are praying (after losing their home, car, and parents’ jobs).

Samuel Stein, PhD candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center, joins Sam to discuss his book, Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate StateThe history of real estate and how manufacturing capital once provided a check on real estate capital. The cycles of investment and disinvestment driving gentrification. How wealthy landowners got much of NYC re-zoned in the 1970s and how housing became hyper-commodified by a financialized economy. Rent control, tenants’ unions, and other ways city dwellers can fight back. A brief history of the Trump family’s real estate empire.

On the fun half: Ben Shapiro believes it’s a conspiracy to link conservative tropes to white supremacist violence. Ken Cuccinelli offers to rewrite Emma Lazarus poem on the Statue of Liberty. Sonny Perdue mocks farmers as “whiners” amid trade war bankruptcies. Moscow Mitch protest in Kentucky. Biden gaffes, says he was VP during Parkland shooting. MSNBC anchor Ayman Mohyeldin pushes back after colleague wrongly scolds him on-air over immigration. Mohyeldin follows up on-air statement on Twitter: Trump has, indeed, expressed a preference for immigrants from Nordic countries. A Florida caller on the positive effects of Bernie’s Joe Rogan appearance.

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It’s Monday, and everything is fine… On today’s show

It’s the NYC Primary Election Eve and an Emerson College Poll shows Zohran Mamdani winning in round 8 of the rank choice voting. 

We talk to Matt Duss over the conflict in Iran. Check out his podcast Undiplomatic and his work at the Center for International Policy

Also joining us is Professor Eskander Sadeghi for a discussion on the history that has led us to this point in Iran. Check out his piece for Jacobin

Plus, Anthony Conwright joins us to discuss the NYC Mayoral Primary and his piece in The Nation “Will Black Americans Vote for a Socialists”

In the Fun Half

The GOP continues to fold themselves into pretzels as they reframe their own previous statements on Iran.

Vinny from PBD attempts to be the voice of reason by pointing out the similarities between Iran and Iraq…attempts.

Marco Rubio goes on Face the Nation to argue that whether Iran has expressed intent of nuclear weaponization is irrelevant to US policy.

ICE agents continue to brutally and violently terrorize communities.

Mahmoud Khalil Returns Home, greeted by AOC and heads straight to Columbia University to continue his fight to end the genocide in Gaza.

All that and more, folks.

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