Real Estate Bubbles, Crisis and Affordability with Kevin Erdmann | EP97

Kevin Erdmann is the author of "Shut Out: How a Housing Shortage Caused the Great Recession and Crippled Our Economy" and "Building from the Ground Up: Reclaiming the American Housing Boom". His work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Barron's, the National Review, USA Today, and Politico, and it has been featured on C-SPAN. Some of his papers and articles published with the support of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University can be found at https://www.mercatus.org/scholars/kevin-erdmann . He tweets as @KAErdmann.

In this episode we talked about:

 • Kevin`s Bio & Background
 • Great Financial Crisis and America’s Housing Boom
 • Post Crisis Period in Real Estate
 • View on Housing Bubble
 • Unlocking Affordable Housing Policy
 • “What are Landlords good for?”
 • Real Estate Trends 2022

Useful links:
https://twitter.com/kaerdmann
https://www.idiosyncraticwhisk.com/2022/03/16-part-series-on-housing-affordability.html
https://www.mercatus.org/scholars/kevin-erdmann

Transcriptions:

Jesse (0s): Welcome to the working capital real estate podcast. My name is Jesper galley. And on this show, we discuss all things real estate with investors and experts in a variety of industries that impact real estate. Whether you're looking at your first investment or raising your first fund, join me and let's build that portfolio one square foot at a time. Ladies and gentlemen, my name's Jessica galley, and you're listening to working capital the real estate podcast. My guest today is Kevin Erdmann. Kevin is a former small businessman and a researcher in hosing monetary policy and financial markets.

 

In 2015, Kevin began to reconsider a range of evidence contradicting commonly held beliefs about the pre 2007 American housing boom, his first book shutout along with several extensions to his research, which were published with the support of the Mercatus center at George Mason university, where he continued to develop a revolutionary new approach to the practical rules of housing debt and money in recent American trends. I caught the attention or he caught my attention recently reading an article and the article was entitled.

 

What are landlords good for? And I thought that was an interesting question. So here we are today, Kevin, how you doing?

 

Kevin (1m 11s): Great. It's great. Thanks for having me.

 

Jesse (1m 13s): Yeah. Well thank you for coming on. We were talking a little bit before the show, a little bit about your background and kind of that first article that I saw. And I was like, well, you know what? It sounds like something that the listeners would get, get a lot of good information, especially since we kind of tackle real estate from the investor's perspective, but also an economic perspective. So thanks again, I guess, you know, we always start with a little bit of a, a history lesson on our guests are a little bit of a background, so maybe you could kick us off and talk a little bit about, you know, your past roles and how you kind of came into the world, the world of real estate and economics.

 

Kevin (1m 53s): I, yeah, it really is all sort of an accident. I was a, as you mentioned, I was a small business owner and back around 2010, 2011, I went back to school