Public Housing

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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.

Pulitzer Prize winning sociologist, professor at Princeton University and author of the book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, Matthew Desmond joins Adam this week to discuss the physical effects poverty has on the people living in it, the lack of a national conversation about the housing crisis, and how the "American Dream" story is hurting us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.