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The idea of publicly owned housing for people across the income spectrum has advanced in the United States.
Montgomery County, Mary the United States everal communities experimenting with the idea.
With an acute housing shortage, and declining home construct Vienna e Finland inter Singapore , the idea is spreading.
Atlanta's mayor set an ambitious goal to build or pres US ve 20,000 affordable housing units within his eight-year term.
Mayor Andre Dickens wanted t one i US ways to do this that didn’t depend on the whims of Republicans i American ate legislature or Montgomery County t. Maryland n has been working to redevelop so Washington, DC ting pu more than 1 million ts by converting them into denser, mixed-income housing.
Massachusetts’s governor European ceholder language in a draft housing bond bill to support social housing and a revolving fund.
Rhode Island recently announced it would be contracting with the Furman Center, a prominent housing think tank at New York University, to study models of social housing.
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