I’m listening to a presentation on a gigantic housing grant my city is applying for. (PRO Grant from HUD, if you’re familiar). They’re proposing spending millions on regulatory reform to promote missing middle housing, which, ok fine, that’s a big task in a major city, but that should already have been done in 2023. Other money would go towards vague stuff like an accelerator program for bipoc affordable developers. After all of that, they’re proposing only 120 “deeply affordable” (under 30% ami) units with the grant.

We have a shortfall of tens of thousands of those units in our city, and this multimillion dollar federal grant would fund just 120.

JUST FUCKING BUILD PUBLIC HOUSING CO-OPS honk-enraged

I swear the neoliberal public-private partnership brainworms these people have is beyond terminal. “We have to strategically leverage this potential pot of funding” no you fucking don’t

  • jabrd [he/him]
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    252 years ago

    public-private partnership

    Looting the nation to stave off a profitability crisis, i.e. neoliberalism. And we’re running out of things to loot

    • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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      We’re at the “knocking out the drywall and stripping the copper wiring” phase of neoliberalism and our politicians and journalists are all this-is-fine

      What a splendid time to be alive