The Argentine president, known for his free-market stance, repealed a law that had imposed restrictions on landlords and significantly reduced rental availability.
It wasn’t a willingness to do it; it was a lack of money.
That’s the same thing when you’re talking about public housing. A commercial landlord is operating as a profit-centered business. Gov’t is operating as essential services. Gov’t shouldn’t be making a profit; housing for the poor should be treated as a public good, and something that’s paid for through taxation, much like infrastructure and public schooling. So it is fundamentally a lack of will to spend the tax dollars necessary to maintain a thing.
That’s a good question, and I don’t know. I know that NYC manages to make them work very well, and some other places have not. Public housing works quite well in other countries as well.
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That’s the same thing when you’re talking about public housing. A commercial landlord is operating as a profit-centered business. Gov’t is operating as essential services. Gov’t shouldn’t be making a profit; housing for the poor should be treated as a public good, and something that’s paid for through taxation, much like infrastructure and public schooling. So it is fundamentally a lack of will to spend the tax dollars necessary to maintain a thing.
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That’s a good question, and I don’t know. I know that NYC manages to make them work very well, and some other places have not. Public housing works quite well in other countries as well.
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