Why "social housing" with Paul Williams

Hello! 

This week, Tammy and Jay remember John Bennet, a former New Yorker editor and Columbia journalism professor who passed away this week: 

kang @jaycaspiankang

RIP John Bennet, a good man who edited some the greats in journalism. In the short time we worked together, he helped me out a lot bc I was having a really hard time. Mostly he just said to care about being a good writer and not care too much about anything else. What a loss.

They are then joined by policy analyst Paul Williams to discuss the concept of social housing and its potential in the United States. How did we arrive at a political consensus so averse to public housing of any kind? Can other countries’ programs help us reclaim housing as a social good rather than a market commodity? What can we learn from current social-housing proposals across the U.S.? 

For more, read Paul on “Public Housing for All” and the California bill that made it further than expected, as well as the initiatives being floated in Rhode Island and Seattle and the project underway in Maryland. 

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