City Journal is often a source of good columns, today one pooh-poohing those who cite Vienna's "social housing" model as something New York City might emulate. The column makes a good case that Vienna's government housing isn't a shining star, and exists due to special circumstances that don't and won't exist in NYC. Mostly US government housing turns into evil, crime-ridden slums.
On the other hand, those of Singapore might be worth a look. They are government owned and, when we were there some years age, had a waiting list of people eager to move into them.
My data admittedly isn't current but we were told the Singapore government is a demanding landlord, entirely willing to evict those who don't pay rent, misbehave or damage their units. I remember seeing furniture and boxes piled on the curb with a carpet tossed over the top, an evictee still trying to find another place to live.
NYC probably hasn't the courage to be this strict. But I was told those tenants who can live with Singapore's rules love living there.
Lee Kuan Yew who "invented" the nation of Singapore was a genius. He turned a equatorial colonial backwater into a wealthy modern city-state in one generation.
