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While it is important that the Administration is taking the affordable housing crisis seriously, the long history of attempts to address housing problems in the U.S. reveals these types of public-private initiatives have repeatedly enriched the private sector and done little to help those who need government action the most.

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Women of every age and background packed onto the sidewalks, with the oldest following the procession in carriages and the youngest being pushed in strollers by their mothers. Hundreds more people peered out of their windows upon the nurses, teachers, writers, social workers and students. “There were women who work with their heads and women who work with their hands and women who never work at all. And they all marched,” the New York Times reported the next day.

Rep. Peggy Maxie, who represented Seattle in the state House for six terms, carries a campaign sign. After leaving the Legislature, Maxie worked as a consultant on community projects and as a mental health therapist and marriage counselor.

Terry Cross with a group of children attending a NICWA-sponsored community gathering in 2001.

Graduate students for the University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work visited Squirrel Hill in the early 1960s to study its Jewish community. Above: The 2000 block of Murray Avenue, showing Pinsker’s, M. Fogel Meats, Murray News Stand, Stern’s Café, Kablin’s Market, and other shops — Nov. 3, 1965.

Above: A miniature of the Erythrean Sibyl, writing.

As founders and leaders of unions, parties, and militant organizations—such as the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), the Trade Union Unity League, the Southern Negro Youth Congress, Sojourners for Truth and Justice, and many others—these women offer powerful guidance in a time when deep polarization makes many despair. Above: Louise Thompson Patterson speaking in Berlin, Germany.

EP Thompson: the idea of people possessing the capacity to act upon the world was central to his life work.