I have to add... trade REALLY has nothing to to do with why your rent is expensive. The chronic shortage of affordable housing is because it doesn't pay to buil

I have to add... trade REALLY has nothing to to do with why your rent is expensive. The chronic shortage of affordable housing is because it doesn't pay to build it or offer it because policy makes it not pay by design (stringent rules on lot size, height limits, number of parking spaces, room size, construction codes, property taxes etc.) because most communities don't want it and want to push it onto the community next door. There's a tendency to try to outlaw poor people resulting in a war on poor people, making it impossible for them to live. The $15 minimum wage is another example of this 'war on poverty.' Some countries make an effort to be let hard-working poor people live with dignity if not much wealth. But here they pay 15.3% FICA on the first dollar they earn, and then people rant about the 47% who don't pay taxes and should have 'skin in the game.' And communities are designed with no transportation, housing options for the poor.