Whether it's publicly run or privately run: Build. Build more. Build fast and hard and tall. You can't solve a housing crisis when there just plain isn't enough housing.http://www.sightline.org/2017/09/21/yes-you-can-build-your-way-to-affordable-housing/ …
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You really think this would just... work? Without *huge* problems? That the public sector doesn’t encounter similar (or worse) pitfalls as private? Public housing has been done before. It’s disastrous.
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I *live* in a city-owned building here in Philly. It's not at all disasterous. Decent rent, prompt repairs, responsive management – exactly opposite most of my other rental experiences.
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Admittedly I don’t have firsthand experience. What drawbacks do you see? What are the downsides? There have to be real and frustrating negatives.
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I don't know everything about public housing, and can only speak from experience. I live in an apartment in a house the city took for taxes about 50 years ago. These apartments are part of the national Hope VI program that seeks to mix regular tenants like my family with people..
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..like my downstairs neighbor, a retired Philly teacher on a pension. Frustrations come from it being an older building with plenty of maintenance issues, but that's more due to the age rather than the management – similar apartments in private buildings are almost always more..
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... expensive and in worse repair. The fittings are pretty basic, but then again, it is a rental unit. I'm 43 and have lived in plenty of apartments in four states over the past 23 years, and this is one of the best arrangements I've ever had.
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