The Social Housing Agenda That Radford Memorialized in Modern Housing for America

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The Clinton administration's Hope six program reduced the number of public housing units by 370,000 from the early 1990s to the late 2010s. The often racist stigma generated toward public housing does not and has not reflected people's lived realities. All of this history matters right now as housing organizers are looking back to the social housing agenda that Radford memorialized in modern housing for America.

Featuring Edward Goetz on his book New Deal Ruins: Race, Economic Justice, and Public Housing Policy. Goetz tells the story of American public housing and then its destruction and dismantling, which took off in the 1980s and accelerated during the 90s under the Clinton Administration’s Hope VI program. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig and get our weekly newsletter by email plus swag. Check out Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire haymarketbooks.org/books/1861-light-in-gaza