We All Live in a Company Town Now. The Labor Movement Can Lead the Way Out.

Beneath the surface is a more malignant driver of this crisis: the speculative private market, which has concentrated its grip over real estate to such an extent that virtually every American lives in a company town now.

Unions from all sectors need to wage campaigns for housing policies that break the vise grip of real-estate elites.

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https://jacobin.com/2023/10/housing-unions-rents-real-estate-public-housing-rent-control