Still think he should hire Sliwa for Staten Island outreach

Whataboutism is not much of an argument. The fact of a rather dismal history of corruption in American public housing (and zoning) doesn't mean there aren't all kinds of other corruption happening. As to the list of insults, they are the last refuge of...

That sounds like very few

Vienna is smaller than NYC but allows more new housing. 60% isn't public at all and most of the rest is publicly guided, not owned. Excellent century-old balanced system. Worth emulating, but as proof of concept easily balanced with failures of concept elsewhere, if the only concept is being public.

Your rent is high because your local authorities reward the holders of capital in the form of existing housing by blocking others from building more. It's not because of the private costs of building vs the public costs.

The problem is the costs are not the same, because the capital discipline is missing. Corruption is just one aspect of that. I'm all for public housing done right, but it's no panacea as a concept, especially at scale. www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr...

Have you seen the finances of the largest public-housing authority in America? The price actually does stay stable, but costs are out of control, the debt is unpayable, corruption is normal, and the heat keeps going out in winter. If you get the mix just right, you get a Vienna, but that's rare.

I hear that. Often places like that don't have cut-throughs even for people walking or riding a bike. You have to drive the whole labyrinth to get from one house to another or to the outside world. The two places in this video both have subways close, visible in the Sweden clip behind the bikes.

In these two places that might paralyze the cars, but not the neighborhood, since most people aren't moving around by car ☺(Central Stockholm and Copacabana, Rio)