are cashier, retail sales clerk and fast food, which just, you can t earn a living wage with them. the difference in the urban areas is it s much harder to move into the middle class. very hard. we did a study at center for opportunity for urbanism, what were the best cities for african-americans in terms of upward mobility, homes, 13 of 15 were the old confederacy. very similar findings for hispanics as well. steve: is that to do with the point of things we don t hear about, policies and zoning and building homes? no question about like when you look at what s happening with a place like texas, working class, latino household making 75, $80,000 a year can buy a decent house. right. forget about it. you re homeless in orange county or l.a. here s the question, in a
top three jobs, the most common jobs in the country right now are cashier, retail sales clerk and fast food, which just, you can t earn a living wage with them. the difference in the urban areas is it s much harder to move into the middle class. very hard. we did a study at center for opportunity for urbanism, what were the best cities for african-americans in terms of upward mobility, homes, 13 of 15 were the old confederacy. very similar findings for hispanics as well. steve: is that to do with the point of things we don t hear about, policies and zoning and building homes? no question about like when you look at what s happening with ace like texas, working class, latino household making 75, $80,000 a year can buy a decent house. right. forget about it. you re homeless in orange
top three jobs, the most common jobs in the country right now are cashier, retail sales clerk and fast food, which just, you can t earn a living wage with them. the difference in the urban areas is it s much harder to move into the middle class. very hard. we did a study at center for opportunity for urbanism, what were the best cities for african-americans in terms of upward mobility, homes, 13 of 15 were the old confederacy. very similar findings for hispanics as well. steve: is that to do with the point of things we don t hear about, policies and zoning and building homes? no question about like when you look at what s happening with a place like texas, working class, latino household making 75, $80,000 a year can buy a decent house. right. forget about it. you re homeless in orange
one wonders what is real and not real in turkey s fight with isis. well what is real right now is turkey is inching more and more towards a police state and it s very sad for those of us who have been to istanbul, it s an amazing city, ankara, there s so much really diversity and urbanism and modernity there, and it s sad to see and after the coup attempt against president erdogan you had tens of thousands of teachers suspended, detained, knocked out of their jobs, many in the military, far, far beyond what may have been in the coup lost positions, detained. that s all before you get to the pkk, the kurdish separatist activity in the country and before you get to these isis attacks. and so as erdogan takes on these issues, his step has been to sort of clamp down more and more. and that s what makes this particular incident so unusual, because the last time i was in turkey, you had a very, very dense obvious presence of police
houston the whipping boy. that s a place that doesn t have zoning. it doesn t have regulation. it is not exactly the full flower of urbanism. excuse me. she may not find houston a full flower of urbanism but fewer rules in houston mean that if someone wants to turn their house into a little store like this person did, they can. you can build tall buildings next to shorter ones. they even allow someone to build a house on a beer can. the result lack of zoning. many papers call houston the best city to live and work in. the big real estate web site says the average price of a two bedroom house is 3200,000 dollars in washington it is almost 600,000. zoning isn t the only reason for the price difference that are other factors.