I’ll meet his face with a sack of money. I’ll take his daughter and sell her back to him – if necessary … I hope that the Communists blow you people up. That’s where I’m at.”

– Charles Mingus, on the landlord evicting him from his loft at 5 Great Jones in Manhattan

Related Eviction on the Installment Plan

The (un)housing crisis is a global phenomenon. Every city & state seems to be facing this crisis but mostly through a tinkering, evasive manner, avoiding hard course changes & applying bandages because the world’s governments have invested heavily in corporations that spin the fables of neoliberalism where the market [in its “natural” state] will determine our human fate. Alas, profit-seeking does not serve us well – it does not supply decent affordable healthcare, housing, roads, education & yet all the media attention tends to avoid any possible inconvenient truths about the true precarity of the average person who has been deceived into buying into their own evictions & misery. The in-your-face, visceral & tragic narratives of those on the short-end of the vulture capital market tell cautionary, inconvenient tales of on-the-edge, hand-to-mouth existence. Also included are some potential inconvenient (for the money classes) rectifications.

Playlist

Ain’t Got No Home • Clarence “”Frogman” Henry

Housing • Some More Crime

Food, Clothes & Shelter • Gary Clail & the On-U Sound System

Homeless / Broken Home • Burial 

Arcosanti, Futuristic Utopian City • Paolo Soleri

Eviction Scene • Melvin Van Peebles

Your Mortgage Makes You Act Right • Chris Rock

A Thanksgiving Prayer • William S. Burroughs

Don’t Sell Your Dreams • The Pop Group

He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven • W.B. Yeats

Housing Project • John Hartford

Jamaica Avenue (Wreck Ambiendub Mix) • Arklight vs Wreck

A House is Not a Home • Shirley Bassey

Home Away From Home • Arthur Russell

Eviction and Arrest • Charles Mingus

Housing • Some More Crime

Old Man Trump • Delila of The Last Internationale

The Ballad of Old Man Trump • New Ash Grove Players

Singing about Fred Trump • Woody Guthrie

City Of Hidden Devices • Smooth

Bad Housing Blues • Josh White

The Big Issue • Chumbawamba

Housing • Some More Crime

The House Song • Lee Hazlewood

To Build A Home • The Cinematic Orchestra + Patrick Watson

Jamaica Avenue Extended (Wreck Ambiendub Mix) • Arklight vs Wreck

The Other Lobby • Atrium Carceri

Land Bread Housing • Dead Prez

The Homeless and& Being Homeless • KRS-One

Sources

Arcosanti: Paolo Soleri on his futuristic utopian city in the desert / Talks About Being Homeless • KRS-One, America’s Broken Dream The Middle Class Families Living in Motels / Homeless man lost the house he lived in for 27 years / What happens when you lose your home at 72, Your Mortgage Makes You Act Right Chris Rock / Buffalo’s eviction numbers are through the roof / Charles Mingus Eviction and Arrest / Elderly couple facing eviction due to rent increase / First-time home buyers struggling to find starter homes / Greedy Landlord Records Himself DOUBLING Tenants Rent / Housing costs pushing more people out of San Diego County / Housing prices soar in United States Rush Hour / How Socialists Solved The Housing Crisis / Renters struggle to find affordable housing / The Housing Crisis is a Grotesque Distortion of Capitalism / Tucson Trailer park living for Americas poor / Why It’s So Expensive To Live In The US / Why rents are dramatically increasing across the United States / Why Rent In London Is Out Of Control Right Now / The Number Of Americans Living In Their Vehicles Explodes / Rent Rage You need to earn how much to live in Toronto / Why Is Housing So Expensive SOME MORE NEWS / Rent Party Jazz read by Viola Davis / Richard Wolff on the Growth of Wages Vs Housing Education and Health / Why Rent In NYC Is Out Of Control Right Now / Renters In America Are Running Out Of Options / South Florida Housing Crisis Your South Florida / COP26 Demo Truro / How Miami became the center of America’s housing crisis / Thousands of protestors in Amsterdam march against the housing crisis / The Rise of Suburban Areas during 1950s / But I being poor have only my dreams yeats / Audio of Woody Guthrie singing about Fred Trump / Centrepoint: Help young people dare to dream again / Eviction floodgate has opened in NYC adding to housing crisis

Clarence “Frogman” Henry, Some More Crime / Gary Clail, Burial / Paolo Soleri / Melvin Van Peebles / Chris Rock / William S Burroughs / The Pop Group / John Hartford / Arklight / Shirley Bassey / Arthur Russell / Charles Mingus / Delila of The Last Internationale/ New Ash Grove Players / Woody Guthrie / Smooth / Josh White / Chumbawamba / Lee Hazlewood / The Cinematic Orchestra / Atrium Carceri / Dead Prez / KRS-One

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