Is housing the soluion?

Since there are 3 million people living in public housing, the HK government benefits from the economy of scale. Building city blocks housing tens of thousands of families at a time.

So they build the apartment buildings with commercial spaces and schools right next to them, lots of public transportations. Of course no one is expected to have cars either.

I wouldn't call HK's public housing a success (like Singapore's where 90% people live in them), but it is definitely further along than in Canada. So the next time you are thinking about the high real estate prices, traffic jams, insufficient public transport, parking problems, and poor city planning; could the solution be public housing?

We North Americans think about public housing as "projects", basically failed neighbourhood where an underclass of immigrants and coloured people live. But Singapore used it to promote racial integration. So why does public housing fail in North America? Is it because of the lack of political will? Lack of imagination? Government run by elites that have private agendas? Racism? Fear of government bureaucracy?