[defrost]

If a state housing commission fails to deliver contracted services then of course they can be taken to court - they are far less likely to dodge and avoid in the manner a truly bad individual landlord can.

They're also there to provide housing services to all including the most needy that many landlords might reject.

See (for example): https://www.housing.wa.gov.au

[twblalock]

See also (for example) all of the abuses of governments ever.

Do you really want to be a slave, and for all of your descendants to be slaves?

Government ownership of housing is the worst solution.

[defrost]

It's not government ownership of housing here, it's a mixture of private ownership of privately owned housing, private ownership of rental housing, and a choice by the two million+ free citizens of the state to invest some of their collective investment money in a managed state housing commision to provide housing to parts of the convential rental market and to the otherwise unserviced poorer end of the rental market as a means of addressing what would otherwise be a large homelessness issue.

It's a smart investment that saves on policing costs and reduces crime .. that other wise the same citizens would have to pay for and live with.

Do try and think more broadly and out of the box. The slavery stuff is just ridiculous (you're US, right?).