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In Defense of Housing by David Madden5/28/2023 Nearly all of the nation’s more than 3,000 public housing authorities have waiting lists. Madden argues that affordable housing is more important now than ever: “If you ever work full time for the minimum wage in America, the number of states where you can afford to rent a one-bedroom apartment on the private market is exactly zero.”įrom the nearly universally negative coverage of public housing, you’d never know that far more people are trying to get into it than leave it. Madden points out that ever since public housing was created, there have been attempts to delegitimize it-but that should not lead us to view public housing as an outright policy failure. The show depicts the clashes over federally mandated public housing developments in Yonkers, NY during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Madden's opinion piece in the Post comes as David Simon’s HBO miniseries "Show Me a Hero" brings the legacy and future of public housing development to the fore. David Madden, co-author of the forthcoming housing justice book In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis, recently demystified popular conceptions of public housing in The Washington Post.
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