Decades of harmful policymaking mean America exclusively associates public housing with squalor, but an influx of subsidized homes would make the suburbs infinitely better, writes Dana Cuff.

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At the June 2022 American Institute of Architects convention in Chicago, former president Barack Obama admonished architects to listen more carefully to the people around us. Listening closely to him, did you catch his surprising rallying cry? Architects should fill the suburbs with new public housing. Okay, he didn’t say that verbatim, but let me piece the claim together.

Speaking about how neighborhood politics work against housing equity, Obama called out “liberal communities… when it comes to siting affordable housing”. These are the NIMBY folks who block multifamily and especially affordable housing at public hearings, community meetings, and neighborhood councils.

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“Are we ready to see public housing’s beauty and suburbia’s impoverishment?”