Good public housing only works if the government (and the people) want it to. In this case no one cared about who would live there, and stuck them in a place pe

Good public housing only works if the government (and the people) want it to. In this case no one cared about who would live there, and stuck them in a place people should not live. Likely someone made a large fortune and gave zero concerns about the residents, and the government got poor people out of sight and out of mind.