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Tell that to people living in NY public housing...

"Imagine paying rent for a home with rats, cockroaches, lead paint and mold. That’s what far too many of the estimated 600,000 residents of New York City public housing are doing, even after a lead paint scandal led to an investigation by federal prosecutors." [1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/30/opinion/new-yorks-public-...

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Yes, when you make programs target only the poor it breeds resentment and makes them vulnerable to conservative attack. Thus they get defunded, look like crap, and people can point to them and say they suck. Making them universal creates a mass constituency like social security and Medicare that is protective.

I don't think by any measurements the NY State/City gov'ts and/or New York Times can be called conservative.

I would call them a mixture of conservative and liberal. They share in common an interest in preserving the power of capital and private property. I am not a liberal, but am a leftist.

I used the word conservative not because it's 100% accurate (liberals are conservative compared to leftists though so it still is accurate), but because it's the word that people more immediately understand.

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/11/public-housing-social-wel...

So the way it’s run is not the problem, it’s that we’re not spending money?

Kind of like public schools?

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