Confronting the affordable-housing crisis - The McKinsey Podcast

The US housing crunch is bad—and it’s getting worse. Wider access to safe, affordable homes is vital to enabling economic mobility for all Americans—and to harnessing what McKinsey Partner <a href="https://www.mckinsey.com/our-people/john-paul-julien">JP Julien</a>, a leader of the <a href="https://www.mckinsey.com/institute-for-economic-mobility/overview">McKinsey Institute for Economic Mobility</a>, calls a “massive” untapped economic opportunity. On this episode of <a href="https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/mckinsey-podcast">The McKinsey Podcast</a>, JP joins Global Editorial Director Lucia Rahilly to discuss what’s causing the <a href="https://www.mckinsey.com/institute-for-economic-mobility/our-insights/investing-in-housing-unlocking-economic-mobility-for-black-families-and-all-americans">crisis in affordable housing</a>, who’s most affected, and what both public- and private-sector leaders ca...