Here is a interesting article! Living in South Florida, I am all too familiar with the cost of housing. But, how we do public housing has been the issue. Maybe we have learned from our past mistake.
The Case for Public Housing
The market can’t solve the nation’s affordable housing crisis. The gap between costs and incomes is just too large.
By Matthew Gordon Lasner
MAY 6, 2016
Across the United States, from the Rio Grande to northern New England, housing activists, civic leaders, and policy-makers are struggling to produce affordable, below-market housing. In rapidly gentrifying city centers but also in suburbs and rural areas, the challenge is fundamentally the same: to bridge the gap between stagnant wages and the high cost of quality housing…
http://www.thenation.com/article/the-case-for-public-housing/
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