Right but why would we want to use public money to help landlords get richer instead of using public money to finance housing directly? I don’t care about landlords. I care about the people who need low cost housing.
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Which may be an argument about the limits of liberal Utopianism.
Arguing the limits of liberal Utopianism has been my whole point Just because you’ve designed the perfect plan on paper, doesn’t mean it’s going to weather the economic and political realities of the world. You should be constantly updating your priors based on results
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The political environment in the US is particularly toxic to getting gov't to do certain types of things, which is why handing out money is often a good default measure. That being said, it doesn't have to be that way, and having the gov't succeed more pushes against that view.
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I think that’s an understatement. There is a history of racism and white supremacy that compromises the government’s ability to deliver public services equally and efficiently And it doesn’t get addressed enough because it doesn’t map well into existing left-right politics
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