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While “most public policyattention has been directed at the plight of home owners, one-third of all Americans pay rent” and their quest for affordable housing has long been “the neglected step-child of federal housing policy.”
Priced Out of Shelter; The Decline of Affordable Housing
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by Glen Ford
“The United States has never achieved national goals in creation of affordable housing.”
The current housing crisis may cause rents to come down in some areas. But wages will also go down, and unemployment is rapidly rising, putting increased pressures on the poor and the soon-to-be poor.
“Wholesale destruction of public housing stock continues under local administrations of both parties.”
A significant portion of sports franchise wealth can be traced directly to the oppression and displacement of Black and Brown bodies.
To understand why COVID-19 killed so many young Black men, you need to know the legend of John Henry. “Covid-19 is a new gear in an old machine.”
Black labor militants, many of whom were Communists, were the key to building the CIO in the South.
Intersection theory insists on the simultaneity of condition, the both/and of Black women’s oppression.
China will find itself engaged in an international struggle between its “win-win” approach to international policy and the US’s attempted “anti-China” policy.
