Imagine you are a well intentioned urban planner for a large city.

You have been asked by the city to choose a location for a housing project.

You chose:

Land closer to the center of the city. It is more expensive, but residents would be closer to schools, pubic transport, and other services.

Because of higher rents in better parts of town and other factors, you find that you cannot afford to house all residents on that land.

You decided to:

Continue with the project as planned

You continue with the planning process and begin building. However, new legislation makes it so that federal funding can only be used to increase the number of residents, not enhance living conditions. 

You chose to:

Halt the project to wait more funds. 

The city has funneled millions in to a failed project, and those same residents the project was meant to serve are still unable to find affordable housing. Need for public housing continues to rise dramatically - this process will repeat in an attempt to house the city's poor. 

End.