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by foxyv 962 days ago
America sucks at socialized housing to be honest. We always build sprawling tracts of public houses in the worst locations so as not to piss off their neighbors.

Soviet style block housing with mixed use development would be awesome but rich Americans would HATE it. Especially when you are building on a 10 acre lot next to their $2M 3 bedroom house, 3-5 miles from downtown, to build 4,000 units for the poors that make them coffee and deliver their Uber Eats.

It's much more politically viable to allow them to build a 20 unit apartment building on their 1/3 acre lot and rent it for $40,000/month to help pay for their $2M mortgage.