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What if you stopped and listened to what they have to say? You might find their stories strikingly relatable.
"We really need a revolution in housing and how we deal with housing," said Sen. Bernie Sanders at a gathering on the issue.
A frightening share of our richest don’t necessarily think so
States prepare to use Medicaid for rental assistance for the first time. With rents growing to their most unaffordable levels ever, some states are preparing to use federal Medicaid dollars in the hopes that health will improve as housing stabilizes.
“There are Americans sleeping all over the streets in urban America,” Samuelsen says. “People have jobs and can’t afford homes. Never in my life have I seen a situation where America’s cities have looked like this."
Dozens of parking lots have opened across the country for working people who can afford a car but not rent.
"When rents skyrocket amidst a severe shortage of affordable housing and a shredded safety net, more people become homeless. It really is that simple—and preventable."
Housing is increasingly treated as both a speculative or an investment commodity for the rich and satisfied, and a charitable donation for the poor and precarious, in a system of corporate capitalist rule obfuscated by the language of human rights.
Most unhoused people are from in state and desire to find housing, while Black and older people are disproportionately affected
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