False dilemma. I offer other options: 1) Doing less of the former. 2) Doing neither outright.
I offer other options: 1) Doing less of the former.
People who own their own homes won't be living in public housing, so that there will be "less of the former."
2) Doing neither outright.
And how do you propose to get that through Congress? By shouting "socialism"?