Ep. 112: 'Stuck' Book Club pt. 1 with Attorney General Rob Bonta

We're doing a three-part book club series on Yoni Appelbaum's 'Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity.' This is episode one, covering chapters 1 through 4. 

In the second half of the show, California Attorney General Rob Bonta joins us to talk about connections between the book's themes and his work enforcing housing and immigration law.

Find the Lewis Center at lewis.ucla.edu and chat with the hosts and fellow listeners at our Substack, uclahousingvoice.substack.com.

Show notes:

• Appelbaum, Y. (2025). Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity. Penguin Random House.
• Stan’s substack, Everyone is Welcome.
• Housing Voice episode 61: Homelessness is a Housing Problem with Gregg Colburn.
• Housing Voice episode 101: Beyond Zoning with John Zeanah and Andre D. Jones (Incentives Series pt. 4).
• 99% Invisible Breakdown of the Power Broker.
• Elmendorf, C. S., Nall, C., & Oklobdzija, S. (2025). The folk economics of housing. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 39(3), 45-66.
• Housing Voice episode 38: The Housing Supply–Migration–Income Relationship with Peter Ganong.
• Books: 
  • The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs
  • The Economy of Cities, Jane Jacobs
  • The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson
  • Golden Gates, Conor Dougherty
  • Abundance, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
  • Why Nothing Works, Marc Dunkelman
  • Public Citizens, Paul Sabin
  • Albion’s Seed, David Hackett Fischer
  • The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
  • Polarized by Degrees, Matt Grossman and David Hopkins