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People can and do and are willing to pay for their own housing. The same is not true for defense. I hate the defense budget as much as anyone, but we should not
by onlyrealcuzzo 7y ago
People can and do and are willing to pay for their own housing. The same is not true for defense. I hate the defense budget as much as anyone, but we should not socialize housing. Every seen what the Soviets built? No one wants to live in that.
- Pfhreak 7y agoPublic housing doesn't need to be brutalist or massive projects. In fact, projects and tenements come with much larger maintenance costs. Read up on Red Vienna, social housing in Paris/Belgium, and some of the successful scattered site and suburban public housing efforts in the US.
- onlyrealcuzzo 7y agoAre the higher maintenance costs of projects offset by the lower costs of all other services -- additional roads, land, sewer pipes, telephone poles, electrical lines, etc? My understanding is that projects are overall very efficient. I'm aware that they cost more per unit than a rural home in the middle of nowhere, both up-front and on-going. But a rural home in the middle of nowhere costs a fortune in services paid for with taxes, on-going.
- Pfhreak 7y agoRural country home and urban project aren't the only options. Buying/building townhouses or duplexes, four story apartment buildings, etc. You can build in denser areas and still not have to maintain a building like a tenement.