Treating HUD like a sinecure you can throw to anyone is part of how housing is the heart of the American Dream and most resistant to reform
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Housing is where we Americans most stubbornly FEEL that sense that success is linked to virtue and reflects your identity
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Cf that queasy feeling I got at how blatant the emotional porn was on Extreme Makeover Home Edition
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Peak feels-based charity of finding one Deserving Poor family then giving them the Perfect House (w/o regard for practical matters)
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Try asking "Why not take that money and build a low rent apartment block" and you'd get eaten alive
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