Where's Donald Trump When You Need Him?
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Public housing can only help alleviate a housing shortage if the apartments are actually available:
Remind me again how public provision is better than private provision? Remind me again how government is the solution rather than the problem?
The city's public housing authority takes too long to renovate its apartments -- sometimes as long as seven years, an audit released yesterday found.Could you imagine such mismanagement in the private housing market?
The apartments are left empty for so long that some residents say homeless people and drug dealers break into them.
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The audit by Comptroller Bill Thompson's office surveyed six of the city's 344 developments and found that the average time it takes to complete renovation work is 3 1/2 years.
Remind me again how public provision is better than private provision? Remind me again how government is the solution rather than the problem?
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Posted by Kip on
14 July 2006
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