Labor Unions and Affordable Housing

An Uneasy Relationship

Bibliographic Data

ID12438574
AuthorsHilary Botein (University of Connecticut, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume42
Issue6
Pages799-822
Publication date2007-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueUrban Affairs Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1078-0874 • E-ISSN: 1552-8332
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1078087407299595
OpenAlexW2082405265
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited24

Labor unions in the United States were involved in producing and advocating for affordable housing in the period after World War II, when labor wielded legislative, electoral, and economic power both nationally and locally. That involvement now has ceased almost completely. This article uses historical analysis to explore how labor unions influenced national housing policies and programs in the postwar United States, and considers how the labor and housing movements do and could collaborate today to meet the current pressing need for affordable housing, through alliances between organized labor and community groups in support of better housing and more unionized construction jobs

Affordable housing · Business · Economic growth · Economics · Labor relations · Labour economics · Legislature · Political science · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Public Administration · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

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