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Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm broadcasting

from Providence, Rhode Island. Last week's episode was my interview with Gail Radford on her

wonderful book Modern Housing for America. We discussed Catherine Bauer and the Labor Housing

Conferences new deal-era efforts to make the US's new public housing system a social housing system

that might appeal to and house the majority of Americans. But real estate reaction and rising

conservatism defeated those efforts. The upshot was the two-tier housing system that came to

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