They can't be rationed with.
Social housing is the only thing that will really work.
It’s amazing how little history people seem to remember or know. I think people might be open to trying again if you could address what went wrong last time (extreme crime and poverty traps)
Yes, of course there were a lot of grim council housing estates (particularly tower blocks) that had to be knocked down but the causes were often a lot more complex than the concept of social housing being fundamentally flawed.
It's amazing how little history people who think they know history actually know
Yourself included.
cf. Mitchell-Lama housing[0]. It was enormously successful in creating housing (both rentals and sales) for significant numbers of people. In fact, such housing is still (70 years later) doing so.
We could use a whole lot more of that!
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell%E2%80%93Lama_Housing_...
Please do better.
I personally know dozens of people who grew up in Mitchell-Lama housing. Tens to hundreds of thousands of people still do.
But because other implementations are less successful (which is debatable, especially as you've provided zero examples), we should scrap successful ones?
Or am I missing your point? Please do elucidate.
Edit: It occurs to me that you're likely ignorant (especially given your response) of Mitchell-Lama programs. As such, I encourage you to educate yourself and to advocate for similar programs, as they create stable housing and promote community for many people -- and unless you live in a large urban area, it provides that for more folks than live in your entire county.
You go ahead and keep moving the goalposts, friend. You can do that all by yourself. kthxbai!
Good hard working people are being priced out of my neighborhood. Social housing could be a huge step in stopping that process.
people wonder why these projects get shot down so often. there's no accountability for the people that move into the units and then people just pretend junkies and dealers dont end up in these units. a lot of these affordable housing projects have "housing first" units baked into their plans which is a type of unit that houses active junkies and refuses to kick them out for any reason. thats the type of stuff people are afraid of. nobody wants to live around drug dealers and tweakers especially if they have kids.
I am not against cities building, but where I live in California the excessive zoning, permitting and delays are at the core of the problem.
When developers/investors fail, they do take down projects with them. See: Oak Knoll/Lehman Brothers.
But yeah, I don't believe the state of California is going to do any better.