Mohammed Arafa-Public Housing

Public housing when maintained properly can be extremely useful to residents who need a place where they can “breath” so to speak. A place that can provide them with the security and affordability they need to get back on their feet or try and move up in the world. It is a place where people who want to improve their own live and/or the lives of their families can go to try and provide a safe area for their families to grow up and make enough money to move up someday. What they have become with the beginning of the 1970’s is not what they were designed for they need to be a place where the youth is nurtured not corrupted and where families grow together not fall apart. That is why i would expand affordable housing and build them in such away where not only the government would maintain but also the residents could contribute. For example the housing projects i would construct would contain public gardens where residents could grow their own fresh grown vegetables. They would also contain a youth center where parents can leave their children and feel secure while also making sure their children are safe. The buildings i would construct would also be close to public transportation so that it is accessible to residents without a car. The buildings i would construct would be rent controlled because people usually living in public housing cant afford the regular price of rent in the city. However this idea of affordable housing would probably be extremely expensive and not very profitable for those who build it that is why i would have the government build it. Also i would not force my residents to furnish the houses.