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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.

Last week's episode was my interview with Gail Radford on her wonderful book, Modern Housing for

America. We discussed Catherine Bauer and the Labor Housing Conference's new deal-era efforts

to make the US's new public housing system, a social housing system, that might appeal to

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