Inasmuch as the need of affordable housing is a failure of markets, it's solution not being market-based makes a certain amount of sense.
I think that the lesson to learn from Cabrini and Robert Taylor doesn't have to be that purely government-created housing will fail. Manhattan has projects that never became as bad as Chicagos worst ones. And there are plenty of market-rate neighborhoods that have terrible conditions (the name "slumlord" exists for a reason). So, in my opinion, it's more a problem of management than anything else. And just plain budget. Homelessness is a national problem, so I think solutions to people being unable to afford housing should be a Federal solution. That would also make it easier to give unemployed people incentives to live to different markets. To low-cost markets if they're permanently unemployed/unemployable. To where jobs they are qualified for exist otherwise. Using non-market solutions to better enable the market functions seems better to me than trying to create pseudo-market solutions. And whatever is done, Statuary regulations to ensure places are safe and in good repair are a must.
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