>>> this is better than encouraging ppl to buy house they couldn’t afford and going into debt to do it <<<<<
No it’s not.
It’s building $8.5 billion in new ghettos.
There has never, ever been a public housing project in America that has not become a ghetto.
The government wants a proletariat, and home ownership threatens that. For a combination of philosophical, environmental, and population-control reasons, liberals now want to suppress the building of single-family homes in favor of high-density apartments and town-houses. They will make it difficult or impossible to develop land that’s already developed. They want us to be a nation of rootless, childless or one-child renters, utterly dependent upon the government for every need. Europe is their model. Last year, Paul Krugman was pushing this idea, I’ve seen it touted in Harpers and the Atlantic Monthly, and for mer King County Executive Ron Sims - now an official in the Obama admin - said as much in a lecture last year. In the Seattle area, everywhere you look, they’re tearing down houses and replacing them with high-density.