{"id":2878,"date":"2025-06-13T07:00:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T11:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=2878"},"modified":"2025-06-06T17:10:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T21:10:47","slug":"social-housing-provides-affordable-solution-for-working-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/social-housing-provides-affordable-solution-for-working-people\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Social Housing&#8217; provides affordable solution for working people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Public housing is not working. It has deepened segregation and concentrated poverty, and nearly half\u00a0of U.S. renters are rent-burdened, meaning they spend more than\u00a030 percent of their income on rent. \u00a0But there may be a solution: social housing, under which permanently affordable housing is run as a\u00a0public good rather than a\u00a0profit center.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Big Idea: Social Housing<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/inthesetimes.com\/article\/social-housing-gentrification-big-idea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/inthesetimes.com\/article\/social-housing-gentrification-big-idea<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><script src=https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9780807017807\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public housing is not working. It has deepened segregation and concentrated poverty, and nearly half\u00a0of U.S. renters are rent-burdened, meaning they spend more than\u00a030 percent of their income on rent. \u00a0But there may be a solution: social housing, under which permanently affordable housing is run as a\u00a0public good rather than a\u00a0profit center. The Big Idea:&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/social-housing-provides-affordable-solution-for-working-people\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;&#8216;Social Housing&#8217; provides affordable solution for working people&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,40,63,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-housing","category-politics","category-social-justice","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2879,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2878\/revisions\/2879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}