"Quietly and with little fanfare, the idea of building new publicly owned housing for people across the income spectrum has advanced...not the kind of public housing most Americans are familiar with: It has a sleek fitness center, multiple gathering spaces, and a...pool" www.vox.com/policy/2024/...
Local governments are trying a new way to address the housing crisis.
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Public housing in the UK was explicitly designed to cover everyone, or at least from poor to the middle class professionals. It was never a charity or meant exclusively for poor people.
They're still $2000/month minimum. 😑
Take a look at all the public housing projects in the country, and then ask yourself if you really want that in your neighborhood.
My experience with wealthy people is that they want things like sleek fitness centers only for those who have “earned it”. I hope my pessimism is proven wrong. This idea is great.
I‘d rather have a nicer appartment without a pool, fitness center and gathering place in the building. Whenever I need those, I‘d rather pick them myself.
Several regions I’ve lived in do this. Then a percentage of the housing is reserved for subsidized renters. The rest pay full rent and no one knows who’s who. Works great.
Public housing of the NYCHA variety (strict income limits, no acquisition of ownership stake) faces structural ills that were well described a half century ago by Jane Jacobs among others. It’s fair to dissociate from that older model if they addressing the shortcomings.
I'm for it. At the end of the day what we need more than anything is more supply.