Why is that the choice? The government can just build housing by the normal means, or fund other entities to do so, such as the housing nonprofit Y-Foundation in the article.
Wait what? This argument makes no sense :
- housing conditions suck
- government is a major factor in creating current housing situation
- ergo government should be more involved...
I grew up in the projects which is government housing but I guarantee you don't want to move there. There are several types of government housing i.e.: Section 8, Projects etc... Did you want to know about any specific form of Gov. Housing?
I support government-owned housing at a variety of sizes and configurations, but I don’t want government involved in providing luxury housing. Government studios, 1BRs, 2/1s, 3/2s, 4/2.5s, and 5/3s for basic housing needs for singles and families? Absolutely.
Government 10 bedroom, 9000 sqft seaside mansions? Not just no, but hell no!
2. Can I have a reference re how the federal govt dictates what gets built?
3. Tax breaks are another story and I don’t know how this affects homelessness or affordable housing. References will be helpful to understand your perspective
Government planned housing being bad is just a feature of your specific local context, not an inevitability to all government subsidized/built housing.
Governments are human organizations, and it's not a surprise that some organizations are better ran than other.
I wouldn't want the government influencing where or how I should live. But they do, every where, with housing projects, rent controls and public housing and subsidies for home improvements, from the US to Singapore to Hong Kong.
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