"so maybe this all just shows how important affordable housing is and how it eventually starts to Trump all other issues." Of course it does, and why anyone wo

"so maybe this all just shows how important affordable housing is and how it eventually starts to Trump all other issues." Of course it does, and why anyone would think otherwise has baffled me my entire adult life. (1) in any survival class, for me boyscouts, you learn that first priority in any survival setting is shelter. (2) anyone living in the US in the last 60 years and has paid any attention to the homeless know how fast your life falls apart when you don't have a home. Countless stories of someone having a traumatic life event, and then being evicted with their entire life being tossed out on the curb by an uncaring landlord (3) a shelter is safety, it is engrained in ourselves that we feel safer and more secure when we have a dedicated place that is permanent. So of course shelter/affordable housing trumps almost everything else, it always has and always will. It is surprising how society has been, seemingly, brainwashed with the idea that housing has to be (a) an investment vehicle and (b) done for obscene profits.