{"id":8821,"date":"2022-09-11T05:42:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T05:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8821"},"modified":"2022-09-11T05:42:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T05:42:20","slug":"how-state-governments-are-reimagining-american-public-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=8821","title":{"rendered":"How state governments are reimagining American public housing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\n&#8220;Governments have successfully addressed past housing shortages through publicly developed housing in places like&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/citymonitor.ai\/housing\/red-vienna-how-austrias-capital-earned-its-place-in-housing-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Vienna<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.helsinkitimes.fi\/finland\/finland-news\/domestic\/20634-good-and-affordable-housing-for-everybody.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Finland<\/a>, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/videos\/2018-08-30\/how-singapore-helped-90-of-households-to-own-their-homes-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Singapore<\/a>, but citing these examples often leads to glazed eyes and weary skepticism that such models could ever work in the US, with our more meager welfare systems and our strong cultural attitudes toward private homeownership. America\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbpp.org\/research\/public-housing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">958,000 units<\/a>&nbsp;of federal public housing have also long suffered from reputation problems both&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/publicintegrity.org\/inside-publici\/newsletters\/watchdog-newsletter\/us-ignored-public-housing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">real<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/beltmag.com\/national-public-housing-museum-reconsidering-public-housing-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">exaggerated<\/a>, with many seen as ugly, dirty, or unsafe. Few understand that many of the woes of American-style public housing have had to do with rules Congress passed nearly 100 years ago that predictably crippled its success and popularity, rules like&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonfairhousing.org\/timeline\/1937-Housing-Act.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">restricting the housing<\/a>&nbsp;to only the very poor.&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/23278643\/affordable-public-housing-inflation-renters-home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/23278643\/affordable-public-housing-inflation-renters-home<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Governments have successfully addressed past housing shortages through publicly developed housing in places like Vienna, Finland, and Singapore, but citing these examples often leads to glazed eyes and weary skepticism that such models could ever work in the US, with our more meager welfare systems and our strong cultural attitudes toward private homeownership. America\u2019s 958,000 units of federal public housing have also long suffered from reputation problems both real and exaggerated, with many seen as ugly, dirty, or unsafe. Few understand that many of the woes of American-style public housing have had to do with rules Congress passed nearly 100 years ago that predictably crippled its success and popularity, rules like restricting the housing to only the very poor.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1469,270,411,150],"class_list":["post-8821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-government-intervention","tag-housing","tag-policy","tag-welfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8822,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8821\/revisions\/8822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}