Yes, absolutely. The US has an enormous empathy problem that manifests as the general cultural issue you're describing and also, notably, it manifests on both s

Yes, absolutely. The US has an enormous empathy problem that manifests as the general cultural issue you're describing and also, notably, it manifests on both sides of every single political issue. On the subject of housing, the obvious empathy problem is wealthy NIMBYs blocking lower income housing because they are worried about their property value. But the empathy problem on the other side is the people using that image to paint everybody, not understanding how many people are in the situation you're describing: Normal people simply not wanting the lives they've worked so hard to attain completely disrupted and having to choose between misery and uprooting their entire lives to take a crapshoot at moving (and even the task of moving itself is often an effort that even middle-income people can't always afford, not even to mention that it means losing your community).