> figure out what American public housing has done wrong (namely the idiotic towers in a park idea) and fix it
I think an issue with this approach is that it's top down, as as mentioned in the article, "those at the top can’t manage all the information about the economy".
A counter-argument may be to just let towns and cities decide what to develop then, since local people have the best information about their neighborhoods. However, 1. this is already the default method and has resulted in housing crises where NIMBYism is rampant. 2. UBI would also help in this case as you're increasing the demand for housing while increasing competition between people living there and not (assuming people want to move to the area in the first place).
I think an issue with this approach is that it's top down, as as mentioned in the article, "those at the top can’t manage all the information about the economy".
A counter-argument may be to just let towns and cities decide what to develop then, since local people have the best information about their neighborhoods. However, 1. this is already the default method and has resulted in housing crises where NIMBYism is rampant. 2. UBI would also help in this case as you're increasing the demand for housing while increasing competition between people living there and not (assuming people want to move to the area in the first place).