Comment on Argentina got rid of rent control. Housing supply skyrocketed
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 2 months agoSo 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.
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.
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.