Urban decay

I have certainly made that point.

About 16 years ago, I published an article in the Journal of Political Economy with Joseph Gyourko called Urban Decline and Durable Housing that makes the point that the slow decline of cities is very much mediated by the stock of durable housing, that the homes don't disappear overnight.

And so year by year, decade by decade, the population slowly diminishes as the homes decay and are g- gradually left to be vacant.

One of the jobs of economists is to remind people that cities are not structures.

Welcome back to Fleccas Talks the Podcast, episode 392.

Today on the show, some Tal Rico supporters came face to face with urban decay.

Will this change how they vote? Then we're gonna go over some of the backlash from Shane Gillis's recent comments on SNL from girls who work out with no clothes on.

Then after that, we're gonna cover some of the recent trans threats and trans violence in Cringe of the Week.

Pretty wild stuff there.

And last but not least, in Urban Decay, this guy is restoring vandalized mailboxes, and people are not happy about it.

All this and more.

It's Fleccas Talks the Podcast, episode 392, ranked the best new podcast of all time.

We're gonna explain.

And last but not least, in Urban Decay, women don't feel safe in cities anymore, and we're gonna tell you who's to blame.

Hint, other women.

All this and more.

Absolutely, we probably invented AI.

All right.

Let's g- get out of Cringe of the Week and let's move on to Urban Decay.

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