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Originally Posted by Crawford
This isn't necessarily true, though. There are many fairly successful public housing programs and many failed ones. I don't think one can make a blanket statement that public housing is a failed idea, even if (in the case of Chicago) it certainly was not a success.
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You're proving my point for me, I think. The successful public housing programs (Paris, NYCHA, numerous foreign examples, etc) have a range of incomes and family types. Sometimes this means that government steps on the toes of middle-income private landlords or some unemployable single moms with three children stay on the wait list.
Poor people also don't have the political clout to protect their gains, so any program that only serves poor people is easy for conservatives to kill.
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