Dig: Modern Housing w/ Gail Radford
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🗓️ 11 December 2022
⏱️ 147 minutes
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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.
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| 1:07.2 | Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm broadcasting |
| 1:13.5 | from Providence, Rhode Island. Nothing so defines American society, politics, and economy, |
| 1:20.0 | like housing. It is an asset unlike any other, an unrivaled motor of the real and financial |
| 1:26.2 | economy, around which racialized wealth, power, status, and security orbit. It powers the system |
| 1:33.6 | at the highest level and commands allegiance to it from below. What we have is a two-tier housing |
| 1:39.7 | system, with a dominant private market organized around private home ownership, overwhelming a much |
| 1:45.5 | smaller and heavily stigmatized, underfunded, and in recent decades, increasingly privatized public |
| 1:52.8 | housing system reserved for only the very poorest. This episode is my interview with Gayle Radford, |
| 1:59.5 | under 1996 book Modern Housing for America, policy struggles in the New Deal era, which in recent |
| 2:07.4 | years has been rediscovered and treasured by a new generation of housing and tenant organizers. |
| 2:14.2 | Radford tells the story of Catherine Bauer, the labor housing conference, and the New Deal era |
| 2:20.0 | struggle to make the American housing system a radically social one. In place of the two-tier system |
| 2:26.5 | that went out, Bauer and her allies proposed a massive federally-backed system of non-commercial |
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