I think what they're trying to say in thr meme is that the building is government funded. In the US, we also a made some government funded buildings, "projects" but it did not go very well (combination of bad optics, and supposedly bad funding) . So the US basically said fuck public funding for housing, the free market will fix everything. And instead of the "ugly" buildings that Russia has (the idea pushed onto Americans) , we ended up with a large number of unhoused people because of spiraling out of control housing costs

[–] Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The US uses vouchers, but they are underfunded (years long wait lists) and not accepted in many places. Some of the places that do accept them have similar issues to housing projects.

[–] trailing9@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

There is only the illusion of a market. Construction codes and lack of construction sites prevent that there is a surplus that drives down costs.