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A huge problem is that the gov no longer builds public housing after the failures they had before, instead of fixing the problems, they just gave up. Theres no reason they had to be built as projects, but they just gave up and didnt evolve. Lots of US cities havent picked up the slack although new ideas like public banking and the affordable housing commission in Denver are going to be trying new things.
Cities like Vienna have tons of good quality public housing that many people live in and because its cheap it keeps private housing prices down too because people can get cheap good quality housing from the city. Cities own huge amounts of property so they only have to pay for construction costs, then they have hundreds of years to make back money so they dont need to charge ridiculous amounts.
Id love to see Boston take a similar approach and build tons of quality public housing on city land, I think this along with private subsidied affordable housing is the only shot we have to make a dent because what were doing now is not. Theres lots of options out there, but cities just arent trying... yet. I think its time now to try many different ideas. You wont solve a problem with only 1 solution which right now is private subsidies. It will take a multi faceted approach.
Cities like Vienna have tons of good quality public housing that many people live in and because its cheap it keeps private housing prices down too because people can get cheap good quality housing from the city. Cities own huge amounts of property so they only have to pay for construction costs, then they have hundreds of years to make back money so they dont need to charge ridiculous amounts.
Id love to see Boston take a similar approach and build tons of quality public housing on city land, I think this along with private subsidied affordable housing is the only shot we have to make a dent because what were doing now is not. Theres lots of options out there, but cities just arent trying... yet. I think its time now to try many different ideas. You wont solve a problem with only 1 solution which right now is private subsidies. It will take a multi faceted approach.