Maybe the boosters of "towers in a park" should have taken a page from the legend of Parmentier, and made them exclusive things one couldn't get an apartment in without knowing someone who knew someone, or at least paying a massive "finder's fee" to some agency?
(Parmentier lived at a time before the pommes frites, when only pigs, prisoners, and people in poor faraway countries ate potatoes. The story goes that he set up a fancy potato field, complete with armed guards, but because they weren't guarded at night, the same people who earlier wouldn't dare eat a potato came to steal them under cover of darkness to grow themselves.)
(Parmentier lived at a time before the pommes frites, when only pigs, prisoners, and people in poor faraway countries ate potatoes. The story goes that he set up a fancy potato field, complete with armed guards, but because they weren't guarded at night, the same people who earlier wouldn't dare eat a potato came to steal them under cover of darkness to grow themselves.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine-Augustin_Parmentier#Po...
Caveat: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Parmentier says it's fake news. Parmentier really did wish to guard his research patches.