As I've said before, the big problem is that most Americans assume that 'if we can't do it, then it can't be done.' Low crime, well funded public housing? Nope, it's all 'but the projects' this and 'projects' that, ignoring the fact that in China your housing representative literally lives in the block with you. But of course that's 'too much government interference' 'cant have a nanny state'.

Literally people just back themselves into an ideological corner where no solution is good enough so the only solution is to do nothing and let the private sector figure it out, as if they don't become just as much of an oppressive force in their solutions.