The Housing Crisis Is Not Just a Financial Crisis

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Housing has been a failure of liberalism since the 19 seventies, says author. The lack of public housing is ' essentially criminal', he argues. New democrats are pushing back against claims that social safety net was wiped out. But there's little attention to rebuilding massesike big public ouse, or to public housing building,. writes David Frum.

Dan's second episode with historian Lily Geismer, who he interviewed in 2019 about Don't Blame Us: Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party. This interview is on Left Behind: The Democrats' Failed Attempt to Solve Inequality, which details the long history of Clintonism and the Democrats’ neoliberal turn. Read the latest newsletter. It's on what Ruthie meant when she said abolition was another word for communism: thedigradio.com/newsletter31 Listen to Geismer's first Dig interview: thedigradio.com/podcast/race-and-class-in-the-liberal-suburbs-with-lily-geismer Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig