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Lack of affordable housing or depressed wages? https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2018/08/07/for-most-us-workers-real-wages-have-barely-budged-for-decades
by passwordoops 2y ago
Lack of affordable housing or depressed wages?
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2018/08/07/for-most-us-workers-real-wages-have-barely-budged-for-decades/ https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2018/08/07/for-most-...
- Avicebron 2y agoKind of both, if the money is the lubricant and the people are one gear and the other gear is all of the infrastructure needed to keep the other gear moving, once the money has been drained out of the assembly it stops working..
- asdff 2y agoProbably lack of housing. Fewer homeless in wv than you might expect with the depressed wages there because more people can afford housing. When you go to places like the rust belt its very hard to find homeless people at all. When you go to high rent/home price regions on the other hand, its hard not to see homeless people.
- BadHumans 2y agoThe answer is both.
- missedthecue 2y agoLack of housing. The poorest states in the US (Mississippi, West Virginia) have low homeless rates. The poorest countries in the continent have low homeless rates. Because it's easy to find cheap housing. If there are 100 houses and 110 people, (and there can't be room-mates), wages can go to infinity and the homeless rates won't be reduced.
- seanmcdirmid 2y agoPeople are also leaving both of those states for places where housing is less affordable. So we have 100 houses for every 90 people in Mississippi because 20 people had already left the state for Atlanta, Nashville, or Austin. Everyone knows that housing problems locally can be solved by making the places less desirable to live in. But it’s not a solution that anyone is interested in pursuing (rightfully so).