This is what many of us YIMBYs have been saying for some time, or believed for some time. The barriers that prevent private and public housing are at times different but largely shared - whether you can or cannot build somewhere is not dependent on who's financing it, but whether you can at all.
There is nothing I dislike about public housing. What I dislike is a sea of thorns that makes it as expensive as the available stock to build, but deed restricted to only go to one class of people and not the other. It's trying to climb out of a hole by scraping the walls for an equally tall pile.
The only way to make housing affordable to everyone is to make it so the only limitations on its constructions are that it is safe and habitable, to make it so that it is like food and not gold. No thriving democracy can exist without each of us having our own space to thrive.
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