I'd disagree that federal projects are not the answer, but the gp has a point. Background: https://ggwash.org/view/78164/how-public-housing-was-destined-to-fa

I'd disagree that federal projects are not the answer, but the gp has a point. Background: https://ggwash.org/view/78164/how-public-housing-was-destined-to-fail https://ggwash.org/view/78164/how-public-housing-was-destine... https://ushistoryscene.com/article/public-housing-myth-of-failure/ https://ushistoryscene.com/article/public-housing-myth-of-fa... These matters are quite complicated and very tough to handle with means tests, or piles of one-time cash. Instead we need to acknowledge that the US has created a worsening class of the generationally impoverished. Bear in mind that the federally defined poverty line is deeply flawed, and people living such lives are often severely impoverished. https://www.economist.com/special-report/2019/09/26/the-official-way-america-calculates-poverty-is-deeply-flawed https://www.economist.com/special-report/2019/09/26/the-offi... Then we can have a conversation about benefits cliffs, which actively discourage people from even trying to better themselves by withdrawing benefits faster than people can improve their lives and forcing people to dismantle their lives before they even qualify for aid. https://www.benefitscliff.com/ https://www.benefitscliff.com/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffreydorfman/2016/10/13/welfare-offers-short-term-help-and-long-term-poverty/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffreydorfman/2016/10/13/welfa... The middle class has been hollowed out. This increases economic precarity and the likelihood that any random family will fall out of the middle class and into poverty. >"It’s difficult to tell if someone’s part of the hollow middle class because they’re still performing all the external markers of middle-classness. Before the pandemic, they were (and largely still are, absent a layoff) buying and leasing cars, purchasing homes, going on vacation, covering their kids’ education and activities. They’re just taking on massive loads of debt to do so." https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22166381/hollow-middle-class-american-dream https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22166381/hollow-middle-class-a... Federal governments failure to keep the economy equitably rewarding for all participants has exacerbated the above problems. https://www.oecd.org/economy/decoupling-of-wages-from-productivity/ https://www.oecd.org/economy/decoupling-of-wages-from-produc... We can also talk about lack of affordable healthcare, the increase of poorly paid bullshit jobs, the decreases in high paying jobs, the war on drugs and externalities thereof, the prison industrial complex, and countless other factors that confound a federal housing project.