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What a Bernie Sanders Agenda on Affordable Housing Should Look Like

The housing crisis is tightly bound up with the wider social crisis in neoliberal capitalism. Tackling it will require a sustained and aggressive challenge to the gentrification and segregation machines that have long dominated our cities and suburbs. A mass movement which builds tenant, union, and electoral power for working-class people will be required to implement the ambitious Homes Guarantee agenda outlined below.

Publication date: 2019-09-04
Parent publication: Jacobin
Publication URL: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/09/affordable-housing-homes-guarantee-homes-guarantee

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