Labor Unions and Affordable Housing An Uneasy Relationship

摘要

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.