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US Must Build Housing on a Bigger Scale than the New Deal
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
18 Feb 2020
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Organizer Tara Raghuveer, whose Kansas City Tenants group won passage of a Tenants Bill of Rights, said “One of our central demands is to return to treating housing as a public good rather than a commodity. The government must build and manage housing like never before, even beyond the scale that was seen during the New Deal era.”

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