{"article":{"id":266783,"heading":"The Rent is Too Damn Hight - and It Doesn't Have to Be","author":"Joshua Holland","created":"2014-12-03 22:05:12","modified":"2014-12-03 22:05:12","last_modified":"Thu, 04 Dec 2014 05:05:12","article":"

to read Joshua Holland's article published on December 1, 2014, click on

http:\/\/billmoyers.com\/2014\/12\/01\/housing\/<\/a>

The take-away from all of this is that while many of our communities are facing a crisis of affordable housing, it doesn’t have to be that way. There are a number of approaches to this very real problem, but so far our political class hasn’t been up to the task. The real estate lobbies don’t want the restrictions, and, as is true with so many other bread-and-butter issues, the politicians effectively have turned a blind eye to the problem.<\/p>\n","contact":"marc1seed@yahoo.com","link":"http:\/\/www.onthecommons.org","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Housing as a human right is subverted by the right of speculation, wrote Arnold Kunzli, Swiss emeritus professor in 2003.","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2014\/12\/266783.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}