Follow Elon Musk’s USAID model to free tenants from public-housing hell
Opinion by Howard Husock • 12h
The willingness of Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency to take on sacred cows is stunning Washington, as tenets long unquestioned suddenly fall like idols destroyed by Abraham.
The same creative destruction should be focused on a bad idea that has harmed cities and fostered dependency for nearly a century: public housing.
Instead of tinkering around its edges, Musk and his minions, as per their approach to the Agency for International Development, should look to phase out “the projects” altogether — by selling off the properties and buying out tenants.
It’s time for government to get out of the housing business — which it never should have been involved with in the first place and which it has proven incompetent to manage.
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