Housing is Austerity

How each level of government has simply given up on providing for one of people's most basic needs.

Demolition equipment tears down a building in the old Cabrini-Green housing project in Chicago.

Today’s post will be something of a micro-history of liberalism. There was a time when self-identified liberals had a progressive vision, one in which the collective resources of society were mustered to provide for people’s basic needs: money, food, and housi…