The US Housing Crisis Today
Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff
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🗓️ 10 March 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff discusses the history of highly successful government-built and-operated housing launched in 1918, the gains won by UAW workers in the first contract at the Volkswagen factory in Chattanooga, TN, and the story of the three-year strike by the Newspaper Guild against the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, which was finally won—only for the paper's owners to shut it down. The second half features an interview with Rob Robinson about housing, affordability, and homelessness in the U.S. today.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, friends, to another edition of Economic Update, a weekly program devoted to the economic |
| 0:27.4 | dimensions of our lives and those of our children. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm your host, Richard Wolfe. |
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| 2:13.0 | going to be particularly focused on housing. We will have an interview in the second half with Rob |
| 2:19.7 | Robinson, who's been our guest before, talking to us about the housing crisis. Affordability, |
| 2:27.3 | which everybody is talking about, has an awful lot to do with the housing costs, the rental |
| 2:33.3 | payments you make and so on. |
| 2:36.0 | And we'll also be talking a little bit about two important union events that teach important |
| 2:41.8 | lessons. |
| 2:43.2 | So let's get right to it. |
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