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What if public housing were for everyone?

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Rachel Cohen - Vox


"Quietly and with little fanfare, the idea of building new publicly owned housing for people across the income spectrum has advanced in the United States."


"Now, with an acute nationwide housing shortage, and declining home construction due to high interest rates, the idea is spreading, and more local officials have been moving forward with plans to create publicly owned housing. They are very clear about not calling it "public housing": To help differentiate these projects from the typical stigmatized, income-restricted, and underfunded model, leaders have coalesced around calling the mixed-income idea "social housing" produced by public developers."



A 268-unit mixed-income, mixed use, new construction project known as The Laureate in Montgomery County, Maryland.   - Montgomery County's Housing Opportunities Commission
A 268-unit mixed-income, mixed use, new construction project known as The Laureate in Montgomery County, Maryland. - Montgomery County's Housing Opportunities Commission

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