When Cody Fischer determined to get into actual property improvement, he had a imaginative and prescient. He wished to construct reasonably priced, vitality environment friendly flats in Minneapolis, not removed from the place he grew up.
His imaginative and prescient was well-timed as a result of, in 2019, Minneapolis’s metropolis council handed one of the formidable housing plans within the nation. One goal of that plan was to alleviate town’s housing scarcity by encouraging builders like Cody to construct, construct, construct.
However when Cody tried to construct, he bumped into issues. The sorts of issues that come up all around the nation when cities confront a brief provide of housing, and attempt to construct their means out.
In the present day on the present, NIMBYism, YIMBYism and why it is so arduous to repair the housing scarcity. Advised by means of the story of two condo buildings in Minneapolis.
This episode was hosted by Amanda Aronczyk and Kenny Malone. It was produced by Emma Peaslee and Sofia Shchukina, and edited by Molly Messick. It was engineered by James Willets and fact-checked by Sierra Juarez. Alex Goldmark is Planet Cash’s government producer.
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