Why Is the Rent So Damn High?

Homelessness is surging in a number of American cities. The origins of the current homelessness crisis go back decades to policies that stopped the US from building enough housing experts said, seven million extremely low income renters cannot get affordable homes. Los Angeles County devotes 76% of its residential land to single family homes,. This leads to sprawling cities, which also require huge road systems, lots of parking, yada, yada. And it leads to higher rent prices because there's simply less space to build housing.