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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.”
Israel and Saudi Arabia are doing everything in their power to prevent Biden from rejoining the nuclear agreement -- and Biden’s team has nothing to say.
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Ten Black Lives Matter chapters are demanding that those who have amassed millions of dollars in the movement’s name submit to both a financial and political accounting.
The People earned a dancing in the streets day, horn honking, slogan shouting day—collective sigh/exhale of relief day…Yes, The People deserve
In the season finale, the liberal mask comes off and the program morphs into a screed for the U.S.’s New Cold War on China.
