The Global Housing Crisis: Rights and Realities
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff
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🗓️ 4 November 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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On this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on the Italian dockworker unions refusing to load or unload Israeli cargo, the broadened national general strikes in Italy demanding the end of the Italian government's support for Israel because of Gaza, and a discussion of the return of socialism into U.S. politics after 80 years. The second half to the show features an interview with Balakrishnan Rajagopal, Professor at M.I.T. and United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, friends, to another edition of Economic Update, a weekly program devoted to the economic |
| 0:26.9 | dimensions of our lives and those of our children. |
| 0:31.1 | I'm your host, Richard Wolfe. |
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