Rent Hikes, Inflation, Mass Evictions: The Coming Rent Revolution
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
As rents spike higher and higher, tent cities grow across the country, and eviction protections wear out, tenants are fed up and organizing.
Nicole and Brian discuss the coming — and necessary — rent revolution.
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| 0:00.0 | 44 million households pay rent every month in the United States, and the crisis for renters is growing. |
| 0:07.9 | We need a new system. We need a new society. We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. |
| 0:46.9 | Yeah. but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. Welcome to The Socialist Program. I'm Nicole Roussel here with Brian Becker. |
| 0:55.4 | If you enjoy or rely on the show or both, please show your support by subscribing to our show on patreon.com slash the socialist program. |
| 1:01.0 | Brian, there was a really big and I think really important story that was in the New York Times recently called The Rent Revolution is Coming. And I'm really excited to talk with you about it today. |
| 1:06.1 | Yes, Nicole. And for our audience, with just a big heads up to everybody, this week I'm traveling. |
| 1:12.8 | And because I'm traveling, the show is going to be a little bit different. |
| 1:17.1 | We're going to have to make shorter versions of our episode for the Tuesday podcast and the Thursday podcast. |
| 1:24.6 | The Wednesday night show, Breakthrough News, which is the Thursday podcast, but coming out as a |
| 1:30.6 | YouTube video every Wednesday night at 7 p.m. We're not going to be doing the YouTube video this |
| 1:36.2 | week. So we'll have three shows, but they're going to be shorter because indeed I'm traveling. |
| 1:41.7 | Later in the week, we're going to cover the escalating war in Ukraine. |
| 1:47.1 | We're going to talk more about the Chinese Communist Party's 20th Congress and what Xi Jinping said. |
| 1:52.9 | We have a lot to cover, but we're going to have to do it in a slightly abbreviated version. |
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| 2:19.9 | this show to help independent programming get started. Nicole, with that said, I was really |
| 2:26.4 | struck by the article because I like the headline. The rent revolution is coming. |
| 2:31.3 | Whenever people talk about a revolution coming in the United States, I think, |
| 2:35.3 | good. We need a revolution. But when you look at the reasons why a rent revolution is indeed |
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