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cover of episode Why housing affordability is ‘tragically bad’ - and what’s needed to fix it: Habitat for Humanity CEO

Why housing affordability is ‘tragically bad’ - and what’s needed to fix it: Habitat for Humanity CEO

2025/1/10
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Linda Lucina:住房问题是当今世界面临的最严峻挑战之一。解决住房可负担性问题对于解决其他社会问题至关重要。如果人们无法获得负担得起的住房,那么他们的健康、教育和就业机会都会受到影响。因此,我们需要认真对待住房问题,并采取有效措施来解决它。 Jonathan Reckford: 住房可负担性危机在全球范围内普遍存在,尤其是在美国。住房成本上涨速度远超收入增长,导致越来越多的人无法负担住房。危机背后有多重原因: 首先,08年金融危机后小型建筑商倒闭,导致住房供应长期不足。 其次,疫情导致需求增加和供应链中断,进一步限制了住房供应。 第三,人们将住房视为金融资产而非居住场所,导致市场扭曲。 解决住房可负担性问题需要多部门合作,包括公共部门、私营部门和公民社会。政府应提供激励措施,鼓励开发商建造混合收入住房,并简化审批流程。同时,城市可以利用自有土地建造经济适用房。最重要的是,我们需要改变观念,将住房视为一项基本人权,并采取行动确保每个人都能获得安全、体面和负担得起的住房。

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Around the world, affordable housing is becoming less and less easy to attain. Habitat for Humanity CEO Jonathan Reckford lays out in plain language the state of global housing, the barriers to affordability and the practical steps that can tackle this crisis, including the solutions this global housing organization is helping get into place. He also shares lessons from his unique career journey - one that included talking himself into a job at an investment bank after college and later coaching the South Korean Olympic rowing team - and what he learned from the leaders who shaped him, including the late US president Jimmy Carter and grandmother Millicent Fenwick, the fashion editor and former US representative.