{"pk":3528,"title":"Let the Market Meet our Housing Needs","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Good evening. It is indeed a great privilege to be here this evening as one of the speakers in the Catherine Bauer Wurster Lecture Series. I am here in the interests of ideological balance. Or, to put it more sim­ ply, I'm the bad guy. It has fallen to me to be the defender of the hated Reagan-Bush do-nothing policies which, according to Peter Dreier, drove American housing markets into the ground. To be called upon to defend the market at Berkeley is about as comfortable a position as de­ fending socialism before the U.S. Cha'Tiber of Commerce. But what the heck: if I have survived doing this kind of thing for twenty-odd years in New York, I certainly can do it once again here in Berkeley. After all these years, I still love preaching to the unconverted.","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[],"section":"Theme Section","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3fm736hw","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Peter","middle_name":"D.","last_name":"Salins","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2012-07-25T11:18:36-07:00","date_accepted":"2012-07-25T11:18:36-07:00","date_published":"1993-07-25T00:00:00-07:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/ucb_crp_bpj/article/3528/galley/2285/download/"}]}