National Social Housing Plan Urges Creation of 12 Million of Homes
AlterLaa in Vienna composes a neighborhood of social housing towers atop a shopping mall. (foto by Margherita Spiluttini, Architekturzentrum Wien) Since the Reagan administration, the federal government has gotten out of the game of producing social housing itself. A new report titled “The Case for Social Housing” calls for the federal government to reverse that in a big way and produce twelve million social housing units by 2030, echoing a proposal from Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minneapolis). While it sounds colossally ambitious, report authors Daniel Aldana Cohen and Mark Paul argue the time ...
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