The Solution Is Public and Social Housing

Many American cities face a severe shortage of affordable housing, and not just for the poor, but well up into the upper middle class. A recent report from harvard's a centre for housing studies concluded the rental market thus appears to be settling into a new normal where nearly half of rentor households are cost burdened or p more than 30 % of their income in rent. What those cities need is a dramatic increase in the number of mid range and affordable dwellings to ease the price pressure on the rental markets. And we'll talk about the ways t that can be done later,. because i'll tell you right now, it's going to be a very long time before weu're able to