It hasn't been lost. Some of us are just old enough to remember what the projects were like, and we're glad they're gone.
There is literally no reason a municipal government can't run high quality social housing. That's why it happens, outside of the US.
Yes, the "secret capitalists hiding in the woodpile" theory of why communism sucks.
You, of course, are immune to the other side's propaganda, and your own brain is a perfect simulator of the real world so you've run mental experiments that prove to you irrefutably how awesome it would be. If only other people paid for it for you.
> That's why it happens, outside of the US.
This is shit throughout all of western civilization. Go check out Ireland, or any place in Europe right now. It's shit everywhere.
As I specified in my previous post, I was talking about public housing in the US.
> This is shit throughout all of western civilization. Go check out Ireland, or any place in Europe right now. It's shit everywhere.
The poster child counterpoint is Austria, proving it's possible. Hard to do? Mostly on a political front.
Anyway, I apologize for escalating the tone of the conversation.
The other day, this happened: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/portland-area-mom-gets-...
That doesn't happen in Austria.
That happens in https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pe4d6aPhbHo
Are you saying the United States is secretly ran by communists, and that there is a conspiracy theory that those secret communists are secretly ran by secret capitalists?
Ignoring, of course, that there are so many other factors that make those look bad, that would continue to make them look bad even if they were properly funded (whatever that absurd number might be).
I just summarized what he was saying.