If free high-quality public housing is available as an alternative to renting, then fine. Otherwise, why should renting not be essentially-risk-free? People don

If free high-quality public housing is available as an alternative to renting, then fine. Otherwise, why should renting not be essentially-risk-free? People don't rent as some sort of risky adventure, they need a place to live. I mean, medicine is socialized (*) so that living will be "risk-free" health-wise, so why not housing? (*) - Yes, I know that doesn't hold in the US...