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konokonohamaru posted...

pls posted...

I mean public housing projects are disgusting and have been torn down in Chicago to great effect. Crime plummeted.

yeah true but it depends how you do it. Public housing all concentrated in one place is a bad idea. Spread out over multiple neighborhoods and it would work better. But the fact remains that you're not gonna get public or subsidized housing in single family neighborhoods, but a lot of these neighborhoods refuse to let medium-high density housing to be built

And that's why instead of forcing people to accept this, you just provide positive reinforcement by fostering conditions that allow people to move more freely.

If people who would otherwise live in shitty concentrated areas had more opportunity (the kind that could definitely be conferred by putting more people to work via some form of Green New Deal) then they'd be able to afford more housing and thus the market becomes wide open to new customers.

Far fewer people are going to complain when the development of more dense housing or cheaper single family homes is the result of demand and customers rather than the will of the state.
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