The public housing miracle that never happened

If you're going to build a policy agenda out of historical analogies, at least do the reading

Worst Take of the Week is an occasional column where the author will rant about something we found stupid, annoying, bad, and/or irritating. While the title of this column was necessary for palindromic reasons, we cannot promise that entries will come out weekly or that each piece will literally be the worst take that week; this column would be boring and repetitive if each week we explained why genocide is bad in response to Twitter user @Nazi1488LoveHitler. What if we could solve the housing crisis simply by instructing the federal government to construct beautiful fourplex apartments…

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