Priced Out: The Podcast
40 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAn ongoing series about gentrification, housing, race and class in urban America.
Join Andru and Cornelius as they share news, opinion and conversation about the most important issue facing U.S. cities: the gap between rich and poor.
This podcast is a companion to the documentary Priced Out: 15 Years of Gentrification in Portland, Ore. "When homes leaves you."
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EP: 40: Special Edition: Nikki Williams Returns
August 21, 2019 01:19 - 33 minutes - 46.4 MBWell, we are back sooner than expected. That's because Nikki Williams, the focus of our documentary Priced Out (2017) and our first film NorthEast Passage (2002) has returned to Portland. If you saw Priced Out the documentary, you know that Nikki moved to Dallas, Texas (spoiler alert) at the end of the film is a quest to find a "healthy black community." What she found there is the discussion we had with her in EP 15? What has changed since then. She is joined, this time, by her daughter Br...
EP: 39: Gentrification, a Rebel Alliance, and a Tale of Two Cities
July 11, 2019 21:52 - 29 minutes - 40 MBPortland, Ore. and Long Beach Calif, are similar and at the same time very different. Portland is known as the "whitest city in America" while Long Beach has long been the country’s most diverse. The two mid-sized, West Coast cities have historically had no rent control and no restrictions on landlord evictions. When the housing boom hit in 2015, both cities saw waves of mass eviction as investment poured in. Since then, Portland and Oregon have led the nation in grassroots housing reform...
EP 38: Cage Match: Outlawing Single-Family Housing in Portland and Across Oregon
June 20, 2019 15:54 - 55 minutes - 76.1 MBListen in to our first ever Priced Out Podcast debate! Meg Hanson is a data activist and historic preservation advocate. Michael Andersen is a Senior Researcher at Sightlines Institute. We've interviewed both of these excellent folks on the show in the past (see below). Today's edition is a grudge match debate about a City of Portland and statewide proposal to end single family housing as we know it. These two proposals are controversial. These types of homes and these types of neighborho...
EP 37: Priced Out on Oregon Public Broadcasting July 2, at 9 pm
June 07, 2019 19:53 - 14 minutes - 19.7 MBThis is a short episode, as we gear up for the release of an audio documentary on Long Beach, California. Cornelius talks about the upcoming Oregon Public Broadcasting premiere of Priced Out the documentary, some local screenings and throws shade on the OTHER "Priced Out." Andru talks about his son's graduation. And no one talks about the X-Men. OPB Broadcast [Portland Channel 10} Premiere of Priced Out, July 2nd, 9 pm OPB rebroadcast, July 4, 2 am More from Priced Out: https://anch...
EP: 36: Your Houseless Neighbors and Ending Homelessness
May 23, 2019 18:19 - 50 minutes - 69.9 MBThis episode is part of a new occasional series we're calling Getting to Know You. Andru and Cornelius talk about the issues from their own personal experience. Andru was a homeless outreach worker in Tulsa for many years and Cornelius is from a part of NJ that has recently been lauded for "ending homelessness" or achieving what is called "functional zero." The two talk about what functional zero means, the flaws with counting unhoused populations and their philosophy on interacting with ...
EP: 35: Panel: “Portland’s Black Community is Actually Growing”
May 09, 2019 20:08 - 37 minutes - 51.4 MBThis episode is a panel discussion for the Society of Applied Anthropology with podcast co-host Cornelius Swart and activist, and entrepreneur Stephen Green. Stephen was featured in Priced Out, the documentary, and was the interviewed on a previous podcast [EP: 32] about black business and the black middle class’s role in gentrification. At the panel, he talked about reframing the discussion on gentrification in Portland. Stephen stated that the black community is growing in metro Portland...
EP 34: The Tough Latina and the Racist Landlord: Tales from Long Beach, Calif. [occasional series]
April 25, 2019 23:20 - 39 minutes - 54.4 MBCynthia Macias grew up in the black and Latino neighborhoods of Long Beach, California. It was an idyllic "hood" growing up. But as an adult, she led a harrowing and heartbreaking life filled with domestic violence and housing discrimination. But Cynthia became a fighter and a housing activist instead of a victim. By the time she was confronted with a stunning race-based eviction, Cynthia was prepared to become a racist landlord's worst nightmare. Join us for a very personal edition of the ...
EP 33: Listener's Choice Show: What City Should We Cover Next?
April 11, 2019 19:45 - 24 minutes - 34 MBWe are mid-season here at Priced Out and your hosts Andru and Cornelius what to hear what city you think we should be covering. Andru and Cornelius talk about their recent travels and the gentrification that they've seen in a bunch of places including Cartagena, Colombia, Kansas City, Missouri, and Vancouver, British Colombia. Listen in and see what they saw happening in those places. In Colombia, where Cornelius' mother was born, Cartagena has transformed from a third-world city into a ...
EP 32: The Black Entrepreneur's View of Gentrification
March 28, 2019 18:50 - 1 hour - 83 MBStephen Green is featured in our documentary Priced Out, but not nearly enough. Born in a suburb of Portland, Stephen moved into the heart of Oregon's black community when he started a family. An economist, venture capitalist and activist, Stephen has worked in both government and in the private sector. He oversaw property acquisition for the City of Portland during some of the most volatile years of gentrification in the black community. He is also on a committee that distributes funds fr...
Ep 31: Gypsies, Neo-Liberals, and Transylvania: Gentrifying Romania
March 14, 2019 17:35 - 49 minutes - 68.3 MBCluj-Napoca is a historic city of about 300,000 residents in northeast Romania. The city is considered the unofficial capital of Transylvania and it contains the country’s largest free university. Since the fall of communism in the 1990s, Romania's housing stock has been re-privatized. That's created the first generation of renters in 50 years while at the same time little rent regulation and low-cost housing have been put in place. Recently, a new mayor has pushed free-market reforms, tax ...
EP 30: Panel: Light Rail, Rent Control and Displacement
February 28, 2019 22:46 - 45 minutes - 62.4 MBJoin us for a live recording of a panel discussion about the threat by a mass transit project poses to the working class, and minority residents of Tigard, Oregon. Tigard is a suburb immediately to the southwest of Portland. There is a large streetcar project (known as light rail) planned for the area. As viewers of Priced Out (the documentary) know, that fifteen years ago local government built a light rail system that caused massive displacement of black and other residents in North P...
EP:29: Black Men Who Think Portland’s Great
February 14, 2019 10:21 - 1 hour - 83.1 MBDonte Moss, T. Walker, and Brad Simmons are three young black men from North Carolina, and they think Portland is great. You don’t hear that kind of message too often and certainly not on this show. So, for Black History Month, we’re happy to share what these energetic and positive young men have to say. Moss, a former defensive end for the Tar Heels, moved to Portland several years ago and has brought out Walker and Simmons to check the place out. Together they are part of the art and com...
EP: 28: Statewide Rent Control in Oregon: Too Far or Not Far Enough?
January 31, 2019 10:00 - 38 minutes - 52.7 MBAfter a five-year struggle, [documented in part in Priced Out (the documentary)] housing activists are getting the impossible. The Oregon Legislature is poised to be the first in the nation to impose rent control on an entire state. Coming on the heels of a housing crisis that scorched Portland and other cities with double-digit rent increases, many see rent control as a massive win for stabilizing working-class renters. Or is it? Housing activist and founder of Portland Tenants United,...
EP 27: The Language of Gentrification [Part 2]
January 17, 2019 08:00 - 37 minutes - 52.1 MBWelcome to Season 2 of the Priced Out Podcast. People use a lot of different terms when referring to gentrification. What’s the differences between revitalization, gentrification and a housing crisis? Why can't the government build affordable housing to compensate communities of color for years of housing discrimination? This is a part two of a conversation we starter last year. All this plus Andru shares a big secret and we finally find out what’s under Cornelius’ pants. Find us at:...
EP 26: Opportunity Zones. Holiday Break. What's Ahead for Season 2
December 21, 2018 02:02 - 31 minutes - 43.1 MBHappy Holidays from the #PricedOut #podcast. We're wrapping up Season 1 and our first year as a podcast. It's been awesome and thank you for your support. In this conversation between Andru and Cornelius, Andru unwraps a present! Cornelius begs. Andru talks about black comic books. And we promise we will look/sound less janky next year. We also preview our other major podcast goals for 2019. Last but not least, Cornelius goes off on Qualified Opportunity Zones. Next year, Trump will turn th...
EP 25: "There's Money in Poverty." How the Real Estate Game is Played
December 13, 2018 20:09 - 42 minutes - 58.4 MBOn Episode 25 we interview multifamily real estate investment broker Ru Budhi. He is a Filipino-American investment agent who worked at firms like Norris Stevens during the Portland's housing crisis. He understands how apartment buildings and condos get financed and why. He’s going to explain why we are having a housing crisis from the investor's point of view. Listen in as we talk financing, Glass-Steagall and why it seems to be in the landlord's interest that poor neighborhoods stay poor. ...
EP 24: Root Shock and the Emotional Impact of Gentrification
November 29, 2018 22:20 - 46 minutes - 63.2 MBWe talk with Michelle Lewis about the emotional and psychological impacts of gentrification and displacement known as Root Shock. Lewis is a mental health counselor who works specifically with the African American community in Portland, Ore. She was featured in our documentary Priced Out. In the film, she talked about losing her home in the subprime mortgage crisis and the challenges of living in a far-flung neighborhood that was often hostile to black residents. Lewis updates us on her rec...
EP 23: Fighting Gentrification with Historic Preservation
November 15, 2018 23:15 - 46 minutes - 63.8 MBAn interview with Portland data activist Megan Hanson. Hanson is a complex data analyst who works with logistics software giant Oracle. After seeing alarming rent hikes and a wave of demolitions in her neighborhood, she started to investigate the Portland zoning code on her free time. She found that the State of Oregon required a public notification process before older homes could be demolished, but that the City of Portland was no longer enforcing these rules. As a result, developers were ...
EP 22: "I gentrified the neighborhood." Interview with Black Realtor [Pt 2]
November 01, 2018 20:21 - 53 minutes - 73.5 MBWe get into the weeds of neighborhood history once again with Fred Stewart, Portland's most controversial black activist. He grew up in Northeast Portland and has been a realtor in the neighborhood since the drug war days. In this the second part of two interviews, Fred talks about when he got into real estate during the depths of the 1980s Drug War, what it took to sell a house in the "ghetto", tax revolts, how he got around redlining and why he bought a strip club from a white man who calle...
EP 21: Vote, Stupid! Midterm Elections & Portland Housing
October 19, 2018 17:35 - 36 minutes - 50 MBThis edition of the Priced Out Podcast Cornelius preaches on Abortion, the NRA and voting whether you like the results or not. The podcast endorses candidates and some vitally important ballot measures before the voters next month. Special guest Kari Lyons from the Welcome Home Coalition talks about the housing bond Measure 26-199 and a Measure 102 that would allow tax dollars spend on affordable housing to be massively amplified. Remember to get your ballots in! https://welcomehomecoalitio...
EP: 20: [Special Edition] Illegal AirBnBs Steal 1,500 Housing Units from Portland
October 11, 2018 15:26 - 36 minutes - 49.8 MBIllegal Airbnbs could pull up to 1,500 housing units from Portland each year despite a new city clampdown, according data from the website InsideAirbnb. Cornelius and his friend Thacher Schmid just published an investigative report in Portland Mercury about illegal Airbnbs and their impact on the Portland housing crisis. In this special edition podcast, Cornelius and Thacher talk about their story, about the data they used, and why Portlanders still love Airbnb even though most seem to know...
EP 19: The Language of Gentrification [pt 1]
October 05, 2018 02:00 - 44 minutes - 61.1 MBWhat does the word gentrification actually mean? Did you know in the original definition of the word, gentrification it is always bad? It's never a good thing. What is "affordable housing?" versus "public housing?" Did you know the terms refer to very specific kind of housing that receive differing levels of taxpayer subsidy? Learn more about the language people use when discussing gentrification. #NerdAlert this will get wonky. More at: https://www.pricedoutmovie.com/ https://www.facebook.c...
EP 18: Journalism and Behind the Scenes of Priced Out (the documentary)
October 03, 2018 00:20 - 55 minutes - 76.2 MBThis edition of Priced Out: The Podcast is a discussion about the journalism behind the making of Priced Out (the documentary). Topics ranged from dealing with controversial sources, navigating government "obfuscation" and storylines in which both the government and the voters themselves are partially to blame. The talk was recorded at Migration Brewing Company in Northeast Portland and was sponsored by the local chapters of the Society of Professional Journalists, the Online News Associa...
EP 17: How a Black Realtor Sees Gentrification [pt 1]
October 03, 2018 00:18 - 43 minutes - 59.4 MBFred Stewart may be Portland's most controversial black activist. He grew up in Northeast Portland and has been a realtor in the neighborhood since the drug war days. He's twice run unsuccessfully for Portland City Council. His views are unconventional, and his style is confrontational. He claims to be a Democrat who continually blasts "white liberals" on everything from gun control (there's too much of it) to their inability to do more for blacks in Oregon (maybe the GOP would be better?). ...
EP 16: The Battle for Rent Control in Long Beach, Calif.
October 03, 2018 00:17 - 24 minutes - 33 MBThis week we do a stylistic turn inspired by NPR shows like This American Life in order to cover the battle to get rent control on the ballot in Long Beach, California. Many people don't know that Long Beach is the sevenths largest city in California. Overshadowed by LA to the north and Orange County to the south, Long Beach is 60 percent renters - the highest rate in the state. We talk to Josh Butler of Housing Long Beach about their struggle to put rent reform on the ballot and their pitc...
EP 15: Nikki Williams: Racism, Gentrification and Black Community in Dallas
October 03, 2018 00:15 - 42 minutes - 59 MBIt’s been three years since Nikki Williams wrapped up her last interview for the documentary Priced Out. At that time, she had just moved to Dallas, Texas. She was fed up with Portland, Oregon, and what she called its “color blind“ and “passive-aggressive” racism. She was emotionally devastated by how her black community had been “obliterated” by gentrification. She sold her house and moved to Dallas in search of a new black community. She wanted to live in a neighborhood where people looked...
EP 14. Detroit: The fall of Capitalism, Democracy, and The Return of the Kings.
October 03, 2018 00:13 - 58 minutes - 80.6 MBDetroit is like a failed state. A place where capitalism has failed for half a century and where even local democracy collapsed after the city’s government was handed over to a federal manager. Much has been written about the city’s epic slow-motion decline and its sudden rise from the ashes. On the Priced Out Podcast we talk about how Detroit’s turn around has been funded and control by only four players, two billionaires families (the Illitch family and Dan Gilbert), one private entity (Mid...
EP 13: Gentrification Through the Eyes of a Gangster (former)
October 03, 2018 00:12 - 1 hour - 85.2 MBToday is the first part in a new series called LEFT OUT of Priced Out. We are going to cover a lot of issues, points of view, and stories that were not included in our 2017 documentary on gentrification Priced Out. In Episode 13, we are going to roll back, beyond Priced Out, to our first film, the 2002 gentrification documentary, NorthEast Passage: The Inner City and the American Dream. In that film, we watched Nikki Williams work with her neighbors and police to close down the drug houses ...
EP 12: Cornelius schools the nation's realtors
October 03, 2018 00:10 - 39 minutes - 54 MBThis week on the Priced Out podcast, a live recording of Cornelius Swart at Turn On, an annual lecture series sponsored the real estate branding and marketing firm 1000 Watt. The company brings in hundreds of their real estate clients from across the nation, include companies like Berkshire Hathaway, to wine them and dine them and treat them to two days of presentations from artists, industry leaders and interesting people. To Swart's surprise, company lead Marc Davidson invited him to talk...
EP 11: St Louis is UnGentrified
October 03, 2018 00:09 - 45 minutes - 63.2 MBEpisode 11 of Priced Out the Podcast is about the great city of St. Louis, MO. The city is a wonderful place with great people and a lot of new potential. There is new energy and growth going on, but the city has a long and troubling past and continues to be challenged by vast poverty, discrimination and neglect. We talk with two residents Rebeca Carlos, host of the podcast Explain to Me and artist and community activist Kevin Hopkins. We talk about the city's deep history of segregation, ...
EP 10: What is Zoning? And the Residential Infill Strategy.
October 03, 2018 00:07 - 44 minutes - 61.1 MBZoning determines what can and cannot be built on a given piece of property. It's a powerful tool that has been used to promote segregation, concentrate poverty and spur investment in neighborhoods across the country for the last 100 years. The stuff of epic NIMBY battles, this dry subject comes alive thanks to special guest Michael Andersen, a senior fellow at Sightlines Institute, a progressive think tank dedicated to sustainable community growth and development. We talk about zoning's d...
EP. 9: How do filmmaker's portray gentrifying communities?
October 03, 2018 00:05 - 50 minutes - 69.9 MBThis week on the Priced Out Podcast we discuss how filmmakers portray the character of a gentrifying community. The discussion was at NW Documentary in Portland, Oregon, after the screening of a film about gentrification in Detroit entitled Last Days of Chinatown. https://www.facebook.com/events/58403... The discussion is with Last Days director Nicole MacDonald as well as Sika Stanton, co-director of The Numbers, a short film about East Portland, and Priced Out director Cornelius Swart. ...
EP 8: Election and Housing MegaPod [ Part 2 ]
October 03, 2018 00:03 - 1 hour - 85.2 MBThis edition of the Priced Out we have an hour-long show packed with conversations about housing and the upcoming election in Oregon. We talk with Rachel Monahan, housing and City Hall Reporter for the Willamette Week. We talk about Portland's housing relocation fee, landlords in the legislature and the primary battle of Democrat Rod Monroe. Part 2 of our conversation with Alissa Keny-Guyer, talking about Rod Monroe and Republican Julie Parrish. (NOTE: Julie Parrish's office did not respond...
EP. 7: The Gentrification of Nashville
October 02, 2018 23:53 - 56 minutes - 76.9 MBNashville has been described as the South's New Metropolis and an "it" city. In 2016, 100 people a day moved to this city known as the capital of the country music industry. Nashville's growth roughly parallels what has happened in Portland, Oregon, a formerly sleepy, midsized town on the West Coast now congested with new development, residents, and diversified industries. As we see with other cities around the country, Nashville's growth has been directed into central city and historicall...
EP. 6: Gentrification in Boston
October 02, 2018 23:11 - 1 hour - 92.9 MBIn this podcast we discuss stories of displacement, the negative health impacts inherent with displacement, Portland’s right-to-return policy, the creative class and activism in Portland, and the Fair Housing Act. City Life/Vida Urbana http://www.clvu.org/ https://www.pricedoutmovie.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/priced-out-podcast/support
EP. 5 Gentrification, Skid Row and Downtown LA
October 02, 2018 23:09 - 30 minutes - 41.2 MBJoin Cornelius as he has an in-depth discussion with John Malpede about gentrification in and around L.A.'s Skid Row. Malpede is the founding artistic director of the Los Angeles Poverty Department. In recent years downtown LA has made a spectacular comeback. The area is now brimming with new museums, expensive condos, and lavishly restored movie palaces. But just a few blocks away sits Skid Row, the nation’s largest homeless community. Skid Row often looks like a third world country, an...
EP. 4 : 2018 Ore. Legislature and the Housing Crisis Part 1
October 02, 2018 23:06 - 25 minutes - 34.4 MBJoin host Cornelius Swart for part 1of an in-depth conversation with Oregon State Rep. Alissa Keny-Guyer of House District 46. They discuss upcoming bills to help fund affordable housing, "rent control"l vs "rent stabilization," coming to the defense of state senator Rod Monroe and more. Priced Out: The Documentary https://www.pricedoutmovie.com/ https://www.facebook.com/PricedOutPDX https://twitter.com/pricedoutusa https://www.instagram.com/pricedoutmovie/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC...
EP 3: Priced Out The Podcast: Tulsa
October 02, 2018 23:05 - 1 hour - 83.8 MBOn this episode of Priced Out: The Podcast we visit Tulsa Oklahoma the former home of co-host Andru Morgan. Tulsa has had a troubled past with race relations and Cornelius and Andru will discuss that history as well as the current community issues including gentrification. They also speak with Kirk Wester the executive director of Growing Together. Kirk gives great insight into the Kendall Whittier neighborhood of Tulsa and how his program is helping lead the charge for gentrification with ju...
EP: 2 Priced Out discussion after SEI Screening
October 02, 2018 23:04 - 30 minutes - 41.2 MBOn this episode of Priced Out: The Podcast Andru flies solo as he shares clips from the SEI Q&A. Self Enhancement Inc screened Priced Out: The Documentary back in February as part of their film series. We know Priced Out: The Documentary can bring up a lot of raw emotions and the Q&A session allows a safe place for people to process those emotions. Listen in on this episode but be sure to catch the next screening of Priced Out and join in on the conversation too. SEI https://www.selfenhancem...
EP 1: Priced Out the Podcast
October 02, 2018 23:02 - 30 minutes - 41.9 MBWelcome to the first episode of Priced Out: The Podcast about Gentrification. Hosted by Andru Morgan and documentary filmmaker Cornelius Swart the director of Priced Out: Gentrification in Portland, Oregon. In today's Podcast, we will discuss gentrification in Portland Oregon as well as the film and what to expect next from Priced Out. https://www.pricedoutmovie.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/priced-out-podcast/support