June 7, 2021· 51 min

This Is How the U.S. Ran Out of Homes for Sale

Orality
Model
50%

Speaker Breakdown

HostTracy Alloway(2,058 words)
M:93%
HostJoe Weisenthal(1,373 words)
M:29%
GuestAli Wolf(5,828 words)
M:29%

Oral Indicators

Agonistic33%
literally, completely, totally
Engagement75%
you, our, your
Memory Aids100%
listen, now, so
Repetition100%
like (137x), gonna (64x), market (63x)
Parallelism100%
And I'm Tracy Alloway...., So, Tracy, it's been a long ti..., But one thing that I remember,...
Sound Patterns61%
62 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"
Formulaic Phrases6%
at the end of the day, you know what, i mean

Literate Indicators

Hedging5%
relatively, probably, maybe
Passive Voice4%
been transferred, are scarred, were scarred
Abstract Nouns14%
investment, recommendation, speculation
Subordination8%
since, although, because
Sentence Length42%
Avg: 15.6 words/sentence
Word Complexity43%
investment, analyze, anticipate
Academic Markers0%
Impersonal Style25%
756 personal pronouns found
Descriptive Style86%
literally, completely, totally

Description

Home demand is booming. By some measures, the market is even hotter than it was during the peak prior to the financial crisis. But there's one big problem: There just aren't many homes available to buy. Whether it's existing inventory or new home sales, there simply isn't enough to meet the demand, even with prices surging. On this episode of Odd Lots, we speak with housing economist Ali Wolf, the chief economist at the data and research firm Zonda, about how the boom happened; how America became so under-housed; and how constraints of land, labor and materials are making it brutal to build more of them. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.