The National Low Income Housing Coalition put out its annual Out of Reach report this week. The results are pretty ugly. Rent is no longer affordable in any state. This has everything to do with wages that are too low to afford basic housing needs nationwide. It is no wonder, then, that homelessness recently jumped 12% in … Continue reading The intersection of wage stagnation and a looming housing crisis on Blog#42
In my blog post, Living the Great Recession: Notes from our new digs, I described the living conditions in the apartment next door and many of the units in the complex we had just moved into.
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