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wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Cabrini Green, and the other housing projects in Chicago, seem to have been the exception rather than the rule.

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The large projects they built in the past always failed. The new model is smaller, spread in normal neighborhoods that seem to work much better.

It wasn’t a willingness to do it; it was a lack of money. The rent charged should cover all expenses. The average person think landlords just roll in cash but the truth it, it is expensive to maintain a property.

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HelixDab2@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

It wasn’t a willingness to do it; it was a lack of money.

That’s the same thing when you’re talking about public housing. A commercial landlord is operating as a profit-centered business. Gov’t is operating as essential services. Gov’t shouldn’t be making a profit; housing for the poor should be treated as a public good, and something that’s paid for through taxation, much like infrastructure and public schooling. So it is fundamentally a lack of will to spend the tax dollars necessary to maintain a thing.

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- wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  So it is fundamentally a lack of will to spend the tax dollars necessary to maintain a thing.
  
  So why don’t the democrats want to maintain them? These are democrat run cities with largely democrat tax payers.
  
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  - HelixDab2@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That’s a good question, and I don’t know. I know that NYC manages to make them work very well, and some other places have not. Public housing works quite well in other countries as well.
    
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    wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I would suspect it was a combination of funding from local, federal and state sources.
    
    The feds love to offer money then take it away.
    
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