The American Rental Crisis
Without a roof over your had, no bed, no address you are reduced to almost nothing. You become the figure we can see when we peer through the windshield of our comfortable 2 ton moving fortress to decipher the cardboard sign that you hold saying something about being homeless while you stand in the middle of the street, no matter the temperature. Then the light turns, everybody moves but you stay put. We may have observed similar figures in other countries, possibly near train stations and have and concluded that homelessness is a universal scrooge, no matter what the social safety net, unavoidable, nothing particular to the US. Simply from the homeless at the street corners we wouldn't conclude that US housing policies are heading for a train wreck. Yet such wreckage appears likely, this article will outline why.