Affordable Housing Crisis Ideas That Are So Crazy They Just Might Work

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 20, 2017

Throughout October in our People's Guide to Power: Real Estate Edition series, we've been exploring all the ways the city has tried - and is still trying - to solve the affordable housing crisis. WNYC reporter Jessica Gould talks about some ideas of how to solve it that are so crazy they just might work.

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