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Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine.

My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

Today, I am interviewing tenant organizers, Leonardo Vilchis, and Tracy Rosenthal,

the authors of the book Abolish Rent, How Tenants Can End a Housing Crisis.

From the American Settlerler colony expanding westward,

violently expropriating indigenous land through the federal subsidization of segregated mass

post-war suburbanization to the neoliberal turn to asset inflation as the engine of economic growth.

Landownership and then specifically homeownership have been some of the fundamental

axes around which full American social and economic citizenship have revolved. The expansionist

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