Opinion: An idea so bad it was bound to return: public housing
SACRAMENTO – One of the biggest frustrations about getting old is hearing younger people propose ideas that were debunked decades ago – and then getting “eyes glazed over” looks from them after explaining that we’veand done that. Proposers of such ideas rarely change their minds after I say, “Dude, I was there and remember – and it was a disaster.”
The latest “old is new again” proposal is for the government to just build housing – as in public officials buying the land, choosing the design, finding a developer and then serving as landlord. The impetus is the nation’s affordable-housing crisis. Advocates have changed the terminology. They are proposing that “we” build“Public housing is ready to make a comeback,”Daniel Denvir and Yonah Freemark in left-leaning Slate. They say current efforts to up-zone property yield only modest results.
State and local governments can simply build “millions of homes themselves” and create “vibrant, mixed-income neighborhoods,” they. The writers admit that past projects fell into disrepair and the feds demolished most of them in the 1970s. This time, however, we’ll provide enough resources to housing authorities to maintain them properly. It’s all so easy!
Growing up in the Philadelphia area in the 1970s, I recall the massive protests and disputes that ensued after the city built housing towers in the midst of a settled urban neighborhood of row houses. The project led to deep racial divisions and sparked an exodus to the suburbs. Such stories repeated themselves in big cities
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