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Is there any place on this earth where “public housing” was anything but an unmitigated disaster that was used simply to corral “the have nots” away from “the h
by kcplate 3y ago
Is there any place on this earth where “public housing” was anything but an unmitigated disaster that was used simply to corral “the have nots” away from “the haves”?
Whatever the solution is, it’s damn sure is not public housing.
- HarryHirsch 3y agoVienna is always held up as a model. Also Berlin, until recently.
- kcplate 3y agoI am sure the chance for success is much greater in a society that is fairly homogenous.
- HarryHirsch 3y agoThere are large tracts of the US that are mostly ethnically homogeneous - most everywhere is not an urban Babel like NYC or SF. Meanwhile, the Habsburg monarchy was the prototype of a multiethnic state, and its capital was everything but uniform. Also Sanhedrin 38a: https://www.sefaria.org/Sanhedrin.38a.8 https://www.sefaria.org/Sanhedrin.38a.8
- breakyerself 3y agoThis is a gross way of saying we have too many minorities here to provide public services.
- kcplate 3y agoNo, that is not a fair characterization of what I said. Our diversity is a complexity that is not addressed for in the working model, so it’s not that we shouldn’t try…but we shouldn’t assume that a model that works well in one environment will work well in another, significantly different, environment.
- breakyerself 3y agoRight. Public housing as practiced in the US throughout the 1950s, 60s, and 70s was rife with racism and classism that caused a lot of problems. That doesn't mean it cannot be done well. It has been done well in other places. The prerequisite for success is the policy makers have to respect the people they're helping. That's all.
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