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I'd like to think if funded properly, public housing would improve but I'm not confident. I grew to in a trailer in a trailer park and honestly, it was good for
by DubiousPusher 6y ago
I'd like to think if funded properly, public housing would improve but I'm not confident. I grew to in a trailer in a trailer park and honestly, it was good for my family. We had 3 loud, boisterous, boys living together and we needed our own four walls. I think it's fair to say subsidizing this kind of private housing might be a bit selfish. After all, why does everyone in a park get a yard when people are just trying to find a studio or a rentable room just to work in the city?
But I think that's the wrong question for two reasons.
1) The choice isn't usually between dense urban developments or trailer parks. I don't even think this type of land use comes into conflict all that much. Occasionally a park is shut down to build a shopping center but most parks are at the edge of cities. They are not usually blocking density.
2) It goes beyond market rate housing. Parks are often limited or banned. Perhaps encouraging parks is manipulating the market but so is what is happening now by law.