Truth, plato posited, is perfection: ideas are more real than tHings, and the world we see is but a dim and watery reflection of the perfect, crystalline reality. Every object has its Platonic ideal, the one true form from which all its earthly expressions take their nature, and of which every earthly object is merely an imperfect shadow.rnMany of us have that vision of the housing authority—A local outpost of the shining city on the hill, a defender of affordability and an expression of political and policy good. We hold to that image even as the real housing authorities we see about us, and the housing stock they own and operate, fall ever fartherrnshort. We excuse their performance as isolated, or absolvable, because the reality facing public housing properties and public housing authorities makes it impossible for them to succeed.
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