{"id":772899,"date":"2022-08-10T21:46:03","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T21:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=1d12f72e320493edf2e65d765134b55f"},"modified":"2022-08-10T21:46:03","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T21:46:03","slug":"2900-can-anything-be-done-about-housing-in-america-w-rachel-cohen-jessica-preheim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/08\/10\/2900-can-anything-be-done-about-housing-in-america-w-rachel-cohen-jessica-preheim\/","title":{"rendered":"2900 – Can Anything Be Done About Housing In America? w\/ Rachel Cohen & Jessica Preheim"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sam and Emma host\u00a0Rachel Cohen,<\/a>\u00a0senior policy reporter at Vox, to discuss her recent piece\u00a0“How state governments are reimagining American public housing”<\/a>. Then, they are joined by\u00a0Jessica Preheim<\/a>, Vice President of Strategic Planning and Public Affairs at the\u00a0Houston Coalition for the Homeless<\/a>\u00a0to discuss\u00a0housing policy in the city<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0First, Emma runs through yesterday\u2019s primaries before diving right into updates from the FBI\u2019s January 6th investigations, from the seizing of Scott Perry\u2019s phone to the GOP\u2019s responses to the Mar-a-Lago raid that vary from \u201cthey planted it!\u201d to \u201cthey\u2019re making it up!\u201d but all seem to recognize an \u201cit\u201d that will be exposed. Then, she\u2019s joined by Rachel Cohen as they dive into the state of public housing in the US, with rents reaching record highs and not coming down anytime soon, despite dropping inflation levels. Next, they step back and walk through the history of public housing in the US, with the Federal Government first becoming involved in the lead-up to the New Deal, even with private interests\u2019 successful lobbying for limitations and, all continuing through the fifties and up to the creation of HUD, the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, in the \u201860s, helping to regulate the federal policies around the matter \u2013 seeing a complete cutoff of investment in public housing alongside a subsidizing of white middle-class families moving to the suburbs. Wrapping up the history of US housing policy, they walk through the post-HUD neoliberal era, with the crime panic starting in the 1980s seeing a complete decimation of HUD\u2019s budget, and leading into an era void of housing infrastructure. Next, Rachel looks to states like Massachusetts to explore how it seems to be local politics that is actually looking to intervene in this crisis, putting forwards policy that isn\u2019t just subsidies for privatized housing, and actually seeks to reinvest in community care and infrastructure, before they wrap up by exploring the future of a reimagined housing system that stems from the states and local communities themselves. Then, Jessica Preheim from the\u00a0Houston Coalition for the Homeless walks Emma through the incredibly remarkable work that the organization has done over the last decade in Houston, with homelessness decreasing by over 60% despite having the sixth largest homeless population as of 2011 and a crackdown from HUD. They explore how much the most marginalized in society can be helped by just having a roof over their head, the Houston Coalition\u2019s tactics to strengthen communities\u2019 ability to shelter their citizens (and the importance of supporting encampments\u2019 existence when there is no other option) and their emphasis on chronic homelessness.<\/p>\n

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Check out Rachel’s piece here:\u00a0https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/23278643\/affordable-public-housing-inflation-renters-home<\/p>\n

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