I hear you, and you make a logical point, if better jobs were out there. Ultimately though there are shortages of lots of things, housing and jobs being but tw

I hear you, and you make a logical point, if better jobs were out there. Ultimately though there are shortages of lots of things, housing and jobs being but two of them. In an ideal world, an increase in rent would increase the value of housing, which would make building housing more valuable and thus more houses eould be built, thus reducing the cost of housing, thus balancing the equation. Land ownership, zoning, and the cost of commuting to low-paid jobs works against that. One could argue that the homeless of say california move to the unoccupied housing of say detroit, but that presumes there are jobs in detriot. In reality of course there are sufficient resources (food, housing etc) for everyone. But distributing that for the common good, rather than individual gain is a sticky problem.