Understand that even in most inexpensive housing markets housing assistance for the poor is closed to new applications and has a TEN YEAR waiting list. Plus multiyear waitlists for income based housing. Supply side, cities stop housing from being built.
@thoughtpunks I’ve been homeless twice in my life, both as a child and an adult. One of the core problems in western economies is the homeless industrial complex. Many businesses and charities have no interest in ending poverty or homelessness because they make so much money off of solving it. This article is a good place to start https://californiapolicycenter.org/americas-homeless-industrial-complex-causes-solutions/