Isn't public housing a kind of technocratic fix?https://twitter.com/jacobinmag/status/782661935053627392 …
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Replying to @kimmaicutler
No, because it decommodifies a bloc of housing and turns it into a public good.
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Replying to @micahuetricht
but what is the entity that is deciding where it is placed, how it is designed, who lives in it, etc.?
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @micahuetricht
technocracy - "the government or control of society or industry by an elite of technical experts."
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @micahuetricht
the American incarnation of public housing in the mid-20th century was administered in a very technocratic way.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler
i wouldn't call it "technocratic," i would call it undemocratic. among other things!
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Replying to @micahuetricht
technocratic approaches to governance are generally undemocratic.
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