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Doesn’t anyone care about housing any more?

“The story of American public housing is one of quiet successes drowned out by loud failures”: Alana Semuels reviews New Deal Ruins: Race, Economic Justice and Public Housing Policy by Ed Goetz. Doesn’t anyone care about housing any more? A new analysis shows that the housing recovery has been deeply uneven, creating winners and losers along lines of race, income and geography. Kicked out in America: Jason DeParle reviews Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond (and more and more and more). We can’t forget how racist institutions shaped homeownership in America. Making America Great Again is a local job: Housing supply can have a big influence on families’ economic fortunes, but it’s determined block by block, city by city — not by presidents. America’s biggest housing program is run by the IRS, and it’s a huge giveaway to rich people. Justin Fox on what makes housing too expensive.