Poverty, the Housing Crisis and Lobster on Food Stamps w/ Matthew Desmond
Factually! with Adam Conover
Public Housing
Housing was like a trend that grew and then, and then died. It's kind of like we defunded so much of it. Reagan cut HUD's budget by 60%. You know, so you cut anything by 60% it's going to die. And when public housing started to be co-it and reviewed as a benefit for African American families, that's when the disparagement started happening. That's when we called, we started cutting the budget and calling public housing a failure and then dynamiting it.
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