The following is strictly my opinion. Misplaced romanticism. AFAIK historically Americans didn't park their poor people or immigrant workers into these huge br

The following is strictly my opinion. Misplaced romanticism. AFAIK historically Americans didn't park their poor people or immigrant workers into these huge brutalist apartment complexes like in Europe, or if they did it is somehow a new phenomenon. And I can assure you it's the same in western Europe. Not a lot of people value that architectural style given what it represents: a lot of political and social failure that carries so much shame and embarrassment we are trying to remove any trace of it.