American housing has been in crisis for decades, of course, but it keeps getting worse...and worse...and *worse*. Americans pay more for worse housing than at any time in their history. Homelessness is at a peak that is soul-crushing to witness and maddening to experience. We turned housing - a human necessity second only to air, food and water - into an asset governed almost entirely by market forces, and so created a crisis that has consumed the nation.
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