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Originally Posted by Obadno
It has nothing to do with the cost. The USA has an asset value of like 200 trillion.
Public housing becomes a den of violence and criminality. its a Socioeconomic issue in the USA that you also get in other mutli-ethnic societies like France, UK etc. Ghettoizing
In Austria and Singapore they don't have those problems so their tiny examples of nice public housing are simply not going to work at scale in the USA
You are better off giving vouchers to help offset rent and let people live where they choose instead of centralizing public housing, we tried it in the 1950's and it was hell by the 1960's, most were torn down by 1990
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Eh seems a little weird to me to imply that public housing fails because of multiethnic societies causing crime. Singapore and Austria are not some tiny investment in nice public housing. I mean how are you going to claim Singapore is a hyper wealthy state and economy then also claim that Singapore only has “tiny examples of nice public housing” when 80% of their residents live in public housing, and even some public housing is building very good wealth for their residents
I’d say the more obvious reasons why public housing fails here is that we don’t invest in it enough creating poor desperate people which is always going to lead to crime. When we do we invest we build — and then don’t invest in its upkeep. I would hope we have better views on how to treat people now than we did in the 1960s.
And yes I would rather incentivize people who need public housing live in areas that provides job opportunities, transit, and social services.
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