[rangestransform]

a large contingent of the voting public, the same contigent that support public housing and are against private housing, see enforcing nuisance and public order laws as (race|class)ist. until enforcing laws against disadvantaged minorities in their own homes and neighbourhoods becomes acceptable again, public housing with under-market tenants will continue to rapidly degrade into hovels like NYCHA.

[mullingitover]

I don't think anyone beyond extreme outliers is 'against private housing,' and disadvantaged minorities themselves want police protection in their own communities. What they don't want, and what nobody wants, is bad policing. So if you build mixed income public housing and do policing right, it just might work. We should try it.