The Dig: Modern Housing w/ Gail Radford
On the book Modern Housing for America: Policy Struggles in the New Deal Era.
December 11, 2022
2 hr 27 min
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December 11, 2022
The Dig: Modern Housing w/ Gail Radford
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<p>Featuring Gail Radford on her classic book Modern Housing for America: Policy Struggles in the New Deal Era. Radford tells the story of Catherine Bauer, the Labor Housing Conference, and the struggle to make the American housing system a radically social one. In place of the two-tier system that won out, Bauer and her allies proposed a massive federally-backed system of noncommercial housing that would appeal to and house the majority of Americans.</p><br /><p>Support The Dig at <a href="http://Patreon.com/TheDig" rel="nofollow">Patreon.com/TheDig</a></p><br /><p>Check out Revolutionary Social Democracy: Working-Class Politics Across the Russian Empire (1882-1917) by Eric Blanc <a href="http://haymarketbooks.org/books/1907-revolutionary-social-democracy" rel="nofollow">haymarketbooks.org/books/1907-revolutionary-social-democracy</a></p>
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