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What does it mean to permanently decommodify housing, and how does that help long-term affordability? Find out in this conversation with David Ackos!
Episode chapters
00:00 | Intro
01:26 | Housing Co-op vs Cohousing
04:07 | David's Journey
13:33 | Decommodification and Affordability
24:54 | Hypocrisy of wanting both wealth building and affordable housing
31:53 | The Parklet
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32:41 | Land trust vs Public Housing vs Co-ops
51:10 | David's Current Work
56:03 | Outro
Links & images
David's previous articles on Streets.mn
Observations from a Minnesota Urbanist in Belgium, the Netherlands and Greece
All We Need Is Enteignen for Socio-Technical Breakthroughs
David's recent talk about cohousing and co-ops (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn7UJwFjZn0)
East Side Community Investment Cooperative (https://www.escic.coop/)
CoNorth (https://conorth.coop/)
Inquilinxs Unidxs por Justicia (https://www.inquilinxsunidxs.org/)
West Side Community Organization (https://www.wsco.org/)
Twin Cities Family Cooperative (https://www.tcfamilycoop.com/)
Types of housing tenure and provision - decommodification and self-organization from Balmer & Bernet (2015)
Attributions
Our theme song is Tanz den Dobberstein, and our interstitial song is Puck's Blues. Both tracks used by permission of their creator, Erik Brandt. Find out more about his band, The Urban Hillbilly Quartet, on their website.
This episode was hosted, edited, and transcribed by Ian R Buck. Many thanks to David Ackos for bringing this topic to us! We're always looking to feature new voices on the show, so if you have ideas for future episodes, drop us a line at podcast@streets.mn.
Transcript
Find the full transcipt on our website.
19 Oct 2026
For Fun And For Profit: CityNerd
Today we're sitting down with Ray Delahanty to talk about his process and what gives him passion making videos as CityNerd!
Links
CityNerd YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@CityNerd)
CityNerd blog (https://www.nerd4cities.com/)
Video: Is Minneapolis Too Nice for Its Own Good? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1qNbIbD4ro)
Oh The Urbanity! guesting on Streets.mn Podcast
Alan Fisher YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@alanthefisher)
Attributions
Our theme song is Tanz den Dobberstein, and our interstitial song is Puck's Blues. Both tracks used by permission of their creator, Erik Brandt. Find out more about his band, The Urban Hillbilly Quartet, on their website.
This episode was produced by Parker Seaman aka Strongthany, was edited by Stina Neel, and was hosted and transcribed by Ian R Buck. Many thanks to Ray Delahanty for coming on the show! We're always looking to feature new voices on the show, so if you have ideas for future episodes, drop us a line at podcast@streets.mn.
Transcript
Find the full transcript on our website.
5 Oct 2026
Live Show: Electing Transportation Champions
If you missed our live event about electing transit champions, fear not! We recorded the panel discussion and are presenting it on the podcast this week.
Chapters
00:00 | Intro
04:39 | How can land use and transportation support each other?
09:59 | Finding common ground
21:18 | What strategies does electing champions unlock?
31:54 | Making the legislature more accessible
36:44 | Preventing burnout
41:47 | Audience question: constitutional amendment
43:25 | Audience question: heavy rail
45:32 | Audience question: not getting stalled by moderates
54:30 | Outro
Links
BikeMN (https://www.bikemn.org/)
Neighbors for More Neighbors (https://www.moreneighbors.org/)
Sustain St Paul (https://www.sustainstpaul.org/)
Our Streets (https://www.ourstreetsmn.org/)
Sierra Club (https://www.sierraclub.org/minnesota)
All Aboard Minnesota (https://www.allaboardmn.org/)
Images
Peter's map of per capita climate emissions.
Attributions
Our theme song is Tanz den Dobberstein, and our interstitial song is Puck's Blues. Both tracks used by permission of their creator, Erik Brandt. Find out more about his band, The Urban Hillbilly Quartet, on their website.
This episode was produced by Stina Neel and was hosted, edited, and transcribed by Ian R Buck. Many thanks to our guests for coming on the show! We're always looking to feature new voices on the show, so if you have ideas for future episodes, drop us a line at podcast@streets.mn (mailto:podcast@streets.mn).
Transcript
Find the full transcript on our website.
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Naomi Kritzer
Lincoln Wells
Joe Harrington
Peter Wagenius
Erik Noonan
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1,227
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Spotify
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Podcast Authority Score: 48 / 100
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Engagement
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