As I wrote in my book Lessons From Eviction Court: How We Can End Our Housing Crisis, the United States once made a commitment to housing all our people, and made phenomenal progress on fulfilling that promise. From the end of the Great Depression of the 1930s through the ’70s, very few people in our country were homeless. Those who were homeless were mostly older men living in cheap hotels, so-called flophouses. At the time, researchers predicted that even that level of homelessness would be eliminated by the end of the 1970s.

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As part of the New Deal, the United States created the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation and the Federal Housing Administration. These agencies and the Veterans Administration purchased, insured, and issued mortgages to protect at-risk homeowners. They also provided millions of others with opportunities to buy houses through significantly lower down payments and interest rates, often with monthly payments that were less expensive than renting.
"From the end of the Great Depression of the 1930s through the ’70s, very few people in our country were homeless."

The New Deal also launched public housing efforts via the Public Works Administration, which built over fifty public housing projects across the country. A few years later, the United States Housing Act of 1937 established a permanent federal framework for public housing through the United States Housing Authority, providing subsidies to local agencies for building and operating public housing specifically for low-income families. Consequently, construction of public housing ramped up even further.

This was the beginning of a decades-long effort to eliminate the nation’s housing woes. In 1948, the United States signed the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The following year, the American Housing Act of 1949 set the goal of ensuring a “decent home in a suitable living environment for every American family.” For many years, the United States took that goal seriously. Recognizing that affordable housing cannot be left to the for-profit market, we made the significant government investment necessary to fulfill the promise of housing Americans.

In the 1960s and ’70s, home purchase support was buttressed by rent support programs, along with the creation of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Public housing projects were again on the rise during this period, with many famous federally funded projects being erected in cities across the country.

Then, quite suddenly, our nation abandoned those noble commitments. In the early 1980s, President Ronald Reagan and a compliant Congress slashed funding for affordable housing by nearly 80 percent.

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Le imprese recuperate dai lavoratori argentini (Ert) rappresentano il movimento contemporaneo più emblematico di autogestione del lavoro, non solo in America latina ma a livello globale. Nate negli anni Novanta durante il boom del neoliberismo, hanno acquisito visibilità mondiale a partire dalla crisi argentina del 2001, con oltre un centinaio di occupazioni di fabbriche e imprese di ogni tipo. Attualmente, il movimento conta 400 cooperative di lavoratori in tutto il territorio argentino, dalle fabbriche industriali alle aziende alimentari e ai fornitori di servizi di ogni tipo, comprese scuole e ospedali. Circa 13.200 lavoratori e lavoratrici vivono del lavoro autogestito di queste aziende fallite e abbandonate dal capitale e rimesse in funzione grazie alla lotta, alla volontà e alla creatività dei loro operai e operaie. La comparsa delle imprese recuperate ha riportato al centro del dibattito della classe operaia e dei movimenti sociali argentini l’esperienza storica dell’autogestione, al di là del cooperativismo istituzionale e, grazie alla rilevanza internazionale del movimento, anche in molte altre parti del mondo

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