Of course it was sabotaged.  Along with Food and Health Care, Real Estate is one of the core areas capitalists use to extract wealth from the working class.  All 3 areas are absolutely essential to a human being's existence, so if you control it everyone dependent on it is forced to buy from you.  Providing affordable housing as a social obligation of the society and human right is as anti-capitalist as you get.  It was inevitable in the FSoA that it would be sabotaged, founded as it was under British Common Law during the pinnacle of the feudal era.  The entire NA Continent was declared Property of the Crown, and the King granted land to lesser nobles who collected the taxes on it for him.  Capitalism and the shift over to Corporate ownership from Royal ownership didn't really change anything.  In fact the British Crown still owns plenty of property both in the FSoA and in Canada.

Public housing has been successful in other countries, a while back I put up an article about Austria, and I think Denmark does fairly well with it also.  However, all the english speaking former colonies of the British Empire including the FSoA, Canada and Oz have horrible problems with affordable housing now.  It all traces back to Feudalism, property ownership and the Rentier system.

https://www.vox.com/policy/390082/public-housing-america-policy-failure-poverty

Public housing didn't fail in the US. But it was sabotaged.

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