But how are landlords supposed to extort a living if there's plentiful government built housing? Did you monsters even think about your local landleech? They might have to go get jobs if we build thousands of identical apartments all over the country and made them available for 2-3% of average incomes.

The government of the PRC is planning to build 200,000 new public housing appartments in hongkong, tyranny i tells ya

Honestly, the “commie blocks” are really good idea and should be built more often in areas with high homelessness and housing issues. Why should US taxes go to blowing up elementary schools/other people’s homes when it can go towards building homes and helping others in need?

identical apartments

Under Communism, we were forced by the government to live in Poor People Houses. It was illegal to tip your landlords. If you updated your wallpaper, the local Commissar would murder your first-born child and eat your dog.

Incredible.

The hardest part about getting anything done in America is that every decision has to be approved by people who aren't going to use the solution anyway.

School funding is decided by people who either don't have school-aged children or who send their kids to private schools. Social Security laws -- which only change to affect future generations of retirees, not current and soon-to retirees -- are decided by retirees.

And so, the ability to put up large apartment complexes (and let's make them nicer and include proper green space and all that) is decided by people who won't live there and who aren't going to walk, bike, or drive to the place where we would build the goddamn housing in the first place.

That's the part that riles me up the most: the number of people who will vote to stop someone else from getting something they need, because the voter doesn't agree with the choice or the outcome. Like, if we could affordably build houses for everyone, Karen P Asshat would vote yes. But ugly apartments? With all the apartment people living there? She votes no.

I've been in politics 35 years now and i have no answer for how to fix that. America is a nation of cockblockers, fundamentally.