How Does Paris Stay Paris? By Pouring Billions Into Public Housing
One quarter of residents in the French capital live in government-owned housing, part of an aggressive plan to keep lower-income Parisians — and their businesses — in the city.
@davidho NYC also has a pretty big public housing sector. I wonder how it compares, i.e. how many units, how many people, how long are the waiting lists.
@davidho Please stop praising Paris, especially by projecting your dreams onto it.
Leaving in the city with a middle wage isn’t possible because rent is not affordable. The affordable housing is far far away from the city center, baddely deserved by public transit that shrinks every year.
It's nice to know that at least somewhere in the world, the government/the people actually care about protecting mixed income communities. In many cities in the US, they have made it effectively illegal not to be able to afford housing while big business rental conglomerates are driving ludicrously high rents and raping the tax system for all it's worth. And it's all "legal".
Unregulated capitalism = profits over people. ALWAYS.
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