There are several buildings near downtown Tampa that were funded as Section 8/”Affordable Housing” and they are nothing but invitations for contractor/builder fraud. The projects are over budget, WAY past completion dates, failing inspection after inspection and are still not ready to house people. Tampa has tens of thousands on waiting lists for rental assistance and they won’t even take new applications. The “projects” housing these buildings were meant to replace were torn down before suitable replacement units were ready.
Newark NJ destroyed an Italian enclave in North Newark to build huge projects, which completely ruined the area. A few decades later, they demolished them and replaced them with “low-rises” (easier to police). Many of the same Italians who warned of the outcome decades ago were still alive when they were vindicated...
Talking about the Encore project? That is the biggest boondoggle I’ve ever seen...