Why Public Housing Failed in America
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- čas přidán 15. 03. 2023
- There’s no better example of the failure of public housing in America than the Puritt-Igoe and Cabrini-Green projects.
But why did public housing fail?
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This is why Habitat for Humanity is so much more successful. The recipients have to be involved. They have skin in the game. They walk away with something they actually own, and had to work to get. And they are helped by volunteers who willingly invest in these families, not by impersonal government agencies funded by tax dollars.
Having lived in 2 low income housing projects in NY STATE - NOT the city (one in the 80s and 90s, the other 2005-2010) as well as helping my mother who TRIED to advocate for the people who lived in them, I've seen this first hand! My divorced mother of three teens took so much pride in the townhome we had. A lovely garden, decorated inside in typical 80s country style (think cute geese lol) we never had roach problems (we did get sprayed every month). But outside our home, it got worse as the years went by. We were in a suburb so less of the city issues but that changed over the years as families in the city wanted to get their kids out of the crime, murders, drugs, etc. Only thing was, the kids didn't want to leave that lifestyle, they didn't want to "gentrify" themselves in the suburbs.
We have two low income housing complexes in the suburb I live in now and 90% of the crime comes from them, the rest spills over into our area from the city. Very few local townsfolk cause any issues (home owners). The rental properties that go for 1,000 or more a month for a small house are trashed quickly and become zombie homes, a true blight!
As Nick says, if you feel it's all owed you, then you simply take no care or pride in your dwelling. No matter where it is!
For the most part, if you give a person a car/bike/ horse lol whatnot, they don't take the best care of it, they didn't pay for it, even crazier if others pay for ins, gas, repairs, etc. But if you had to scrimp and save to get that car and you have to work your bum off for everything that comes with owning that car, you will for the most part, take care of that car like it's the precious commodity that it is!
Owning a home that if you punch out a wall, you flood the bathroom, you destroy something, welp, then you have to pay for it! If you have to pay for the heat and a/c and electric yourself, you tend to be more mindful of where the thermostat is set and if you leave the lights on.
When you have 3,4,5 generations that never had anything like that, and they don't know anyone like that, and all they know is what they have given to them, they simply have no way to learn.
this uniquely an america problem -- a culture problem.
ya'll don't give a shit about anything or anyone but yourselves.
public housing works fine in places where this is not a thing, i assure you.
People like you are the reason this great country have hope for a better future :)
This show is honest about human nature. Politicians tend to ignore human nature and only look at the paper
When you own nothing, you have no respect for it.
And you will not be happy.
They did it to contain the poor to geographically controlled areas. They were built but had no plan for security and maintenance those funds were squandered by state and local governments that assembled huge overpaid administrative bureaucracies that funded administrative aspects and not the maintenance and security.
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Hi from.Mexico, great synopsis on the faikures of public housing
Hi from.Mexico, great synopsis on the faiures of public housing
I wonder if there will ever be a solution that works for this problem.
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Public housing is a failure because they don't hold people accountable period. Simple if you destroy a place, your on the street. That would be incentive to take care of things. But the bleeding hearts will say, its not the childrens fault. Compassion is fueling these tent cities and not prosecuteing crimes.
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That's a really crappy argument.
Like.... if you need to own something to take care of it... that's a you problem.
Plenty of places in the world where things remain clean and maintained because the members of society see it as their space and take care of it.
So, what's your take on why public housing failed?
@@crystalwater505 culture.
@@ri-oj1ul That's really vague. That tells you don't have a good reason. I mean, also not taking care of something because you don't own it is also true. Just because it doesn't happen everywhere doesn't mean it isn't true.
@@crystalwater505it still exists, it was simply defunded through Nixon and Reagan, ballooning the homeless population moreso than anything else. Believe it or not, sleeping in sub 0 weather is worse than living in slummy public housing. Also, most public housing today aren't "the projects" he's fear mongering about, they are vouchers for private apartments. This voucher system is simply underfunded and not advertised to those who need it. Usually only available to less than 50% of those who qualify in rural areas, and down to 0% of those who need it in suburban areas.
One word, Demographics. That being said it’s so bad we need to bring them back.
Not my country ..
i don't think that's what tragedy of the commons is.
at worst this is just propaganda for private ownership.
Then along comes a latte modern day Marxist fresh from college crying out "Uhh Akthuwally..." followed by a fifty-page repeated rant about how it's all capitalism's fault.
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You also forgot to mention that the government expected the people to maintain the buildings but one problem with that is that it takes government funding to maintain these buildings since they are not peoples buildings it is not their obligation to take care of them but the government was too focused on giving funding in money to suburban places and using inner city money to pay for the expenses of the middle class
USSR didn’t have a housing crisis, yet they practiced public housing. The problem isn’t public house, it’s your system
Shut Up Woke Boy
Apparently, those Soviet blocks are not in very good condition these days.
@@ladymacbethofmtensk896 khrushchevka was designed to have only 25 years life span. I think most people rather living in poorly built house than sleeping on the street
I'm sorry, but you were just speaking over the heads of corrupt politicians and the left's ability to have a logical thought process.
Okay congratulations I'll be making a video about this where I'll be tagging you. This is literally the worst argument You could use against public housing. And I am going to thoroughly enjoy breaking down point by point just how fundamentally wrong. You're understanding is. You brought up cabrini green I'm going to have fun discussing that considering high rises is one of my favorite books. And it specifically discusses cabrini green And exactly why it fell into disrepair. I'm also going to love mentioning the fact that there is multiple countries to this day that over 30% of their population lives in public housing. There's even a few were close to 50% live in public housing. This is actually the worst public housing argument and it's going to be thoroughly enjoyable deconstructing the stupidity that is this take
So, where is that video at? Why did public housing fall into disrepair in the US then?
@@crystalwater505 it's multi-factor as to why you as housing didn't work. I wish I finished the video by now, but I only got about 29 minutes done and the finished thing is going to be over 50 minutes. But I got kids so it's turned into more of a passion project I dedicate a little bit of time to when I have the chance
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Hi from.Mexico, great synopsis on the faikures of public housing