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In recent months, progressives and tenant organizers have worked to make housing central to the 2024 campaign.

Archived version: https://archive.ph/6XoSt

SpinScore: https://spinscore.io/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftruthout.org%2Farticles%2Fharriss-4-year-housing-plan-will-target-predatory-wall-street-landlords%2F

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Landlords needn't be from Wall Street to be predatory.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

The issue with political whores is that their idea of housing solution is to give state aid to the private sector who will use the cash to front run the peasants...

Literally the regime is engineered that most working folk never get ahead. Cut out rent seeker and money changers, build the units!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

The middle/lower class needs a W here. Let's make it happen!!