The Evolution and Consequences of Housing Policies in the New Deal Era

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This chapter explores the progression of housing initiatives from FDR's administration through the dominance of private sector programs like the Federal Housing Administration, examining the impact on public housing for the poorest and the shift towards privatization and federal support for private home ownership.

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