Challenges of Homeownership and the Resurgence of Public Housing Development

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Exploring the hurdles encountered by US renters, including obstacles to homeownership stemming from racism, class disparities, and generational differences, while highlighting the broader societal and political implications of the housing crisis. Initiatives like public housing development in places like Rhode Island offer potential solutions to address these pressing issues.

Featuring Gail Radford on her classic book Modern Housing for America: Policy Struggles in the New Deal Era. Radford tells the story of Catherine Bauer, the Labor Housing Conference, and the struggle to make the American housing system a radically social one. In place of the two-tier system that won out, Bauer and her allies proposed a massive federally-backed system of noncommercial housing that would appeal to and house the majority of Americans. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Check out Revolutionary Social Democracy: Working-Class Politics Across the Russian Empire (1882-1917) by Eric Blanc haymarketbooks.org/books/1907-revolutionary-social-democracy