This is a post that ignores the American public housing hellholes that developers and supporting local governments are at pains to discover everywhere — find them, fail them, flatten them and forget them on the way to building more desirable kinds of housing for both builder profits and community tax base increases.
Instead, why not sneak a peek at excellence? Public housing that might be worth enjoying from inside and out.
Beyond their infamous failings, luridly publicized, the people who most value public housing tend to live in it. And what would they know? There is at least one institution that not only values public housing but is pleased to tell you why and how it decides.
That institution is the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). It is prepared not only to assess public housing, but to score the results. Now and then HUD finds local Housing Authorities that do an excellent job of sustaining their responsibilities.
This post looks at one recent highly-rated Public Housing Authority and explores how HUD grades its yearly candidates in order to recently hand a ‘High Performing’ designation to the North Platte Housing Authority in Nebraska. Read more in The North Platte Telegraph: North Platte Housing Authority receives High Performing designation
Apparently, most public opinion to the contrary, Public Housing can be done well in America.
