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@RealChangeNews

We need to shift to social housing ASAP

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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

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The American housing market is existentially, institutionally, systemically, irredeemably, unalterably racist to its core. It has always been. It will always be. As long as we rely on it to produce housing, these are the outcomes we will continue to get-50+ yrs after Fair Housing twitter.com/themarkup/stat…

6:57 PM · Aug 25, 2021

You say we need to “switch to social housing.” To start, I obtain housing in the market. I can afford it and prefer to keep it that way. Should I (and people like me) be placed into social housing too? Or should it be for people who actually need it?

Streets Are For People NH=neighborhood

If it is systematically flawed, which systems are we talking about?