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Baryon-Sweep t1_j8v4se1 wrote

Reply to comment by ahtigers10 in WaPo: DC overpays landlords millions to house the city’s poorest by ahtigers10

What is it in the US where we just can't do anything efficiently or competently.

Almost every program is rife with incompetence, profiteering, and fraud.

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[deleted] t1_j8vjdfk wrote

> What is it in the US where we just can't do anything efficiently or competently.

I mean - there ARE well run government programs. You just don't read about them because no one publishes new articles about things going well.

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Bitterfish t1_j8wmtdz wrote

A lot of the time the culprit is regulatory capture, where the industry that is meant to be governed by an agency ends up defining the terms of its governance. A famous recent example is Boeing and the FAA, among many others. It seems likely that DCHA is extremely cozy with landlords and this is one result.

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