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CMV: America Should Try Public Housing Projects Again, Despite the Failures of Earlier Attempts

Most Americans are familiar with the traumatic backstories and evil memories associated with its “public housing projects” that were overridden with violence, crime, and neglect. What many Americans may not know is that we aren’t the only country to have developed such programs. Many countries have built public housing and succeeded: Its only in the USA that it really failed.


Section 8, the program we have today, is somewhat lottery based: We give housing waivers to a lucky few and then the middle finger to everyone else. Section 8 is also unfair to those working class people who earn just above the income limit threshold. 

If we really want to promote equality and upward mobility, we should take lessons learned from earlier failures and try high density, no car, environmentally friendly, and economically self sustaining public housing along public transit lines. 

If we avoid past mistakes (single neighborhood concentration of apartments, under policing, etc.), and build out thoughtfully trial phases, I really believe America could try this again and succeed!
gpt
The federal government in the USA does not dictate local zoning decisions. If your city wants to allow this type of development, it is free to do so. Have at it. You're likely going to quickly realize one of two things, nobody wants to build there since nobody is willing to pay the rent or what NIMBY means. There is no top down from Washington power to force these projects.