> The homeless aren't homeless because housing is expensive where you are. There are places within reach where housing is cheap. This is about as disconnected

> The homeless aren't homeless because housing is expensive where you are. There are places within reach where housing is cheap. This is about as disconnected from reality as it gets. We beat out >50 applicants for our current rental by offering 6mos up front. That ad was up for less than 2 hours. Other landlords we talked to were working through 400 applications per day. We're paying just over double for the same sq ft, in the next county out. We beat long odds for the privilege. People all around the region - with steady gov jobs and money in the bank - moved into dodgy hotels or their cars because they had nowhere to go.