Brownfield 1977 [Allan; a former staff aide to a U.S. Vice President, Members of Congress, and the U.S. Senate Internal Subcommittee; associate editor of The Lincoln Review], “The Inherent Inefficiency of Government Bureaucracy”, Foundation for Economic Education, June 1 1977
https://fee.org/articles/the-inherent-inefficiency-of-government-bureaucracy/
Whether we turn to medical care, housing, jobs or day care, the presumption of those who urge expensive government programs is always that government is best equipped to efficiently deal with the problem. In fact, the idea of social programs to help people to help themselves has itself come to an end. Now, we seem content to place whole classes of people upon welfare or some other form of public support, with little concern about their long-run well-being or the wellbeing of society as a whole. Unfortunately, a class of people—government bureaucrats and those hired by government—profits from such a system.
Public housing causes community issues: crime, unemployment, poverty
Husock 2003[Howard; Vice President, Research & Publications, Contributing Editor, City Journal], “How Public Housing Harms Cities”, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, 2003
http://www.city-journal.org/html/how-public-housing-harms-cities-12410.html
Public housing spawns neighborhood social problems because it concentrates together welfare-dependent, single-parent families, whose fatherless children disproportionately turn out to be school dropouts, drug users, non-workers, and criminals. These are not, of course, the families public housing originally aimed to serve. But as the U.S. economy boomed after World War II, the lower-middle-class working families for whom the projects had been built discovered that they could afford privately built homes in America’s burgeoning suburbs, and by the 1960s, they had completely abandoned public housing. Left behind were the poorest, most disorganized, non-working families, almost all of them headed by single women. Public housing then became a key component of the vast welfare-support network that gave young women their own income and apartment if they gave birth to illegitimate kids. As the fatherless children of these women grew up and went astray, many projects became lawless places, with gunfire a nightly occurrence and murder commonplace.
