The average age of a homeless person in America is 9, according to NPR. we have a housing crisis!

[Pop23]

Yep - Sad

First-Ever Evictions Database Shows: 'We're In the Middle Of A Housing Crisis'

The cities are expensive to live in, but the working poor need public transportation to work, which means living in the city. It's a no win situation.
I read an article a little while ago that explained why affordable subsidized rent properties are so unprofitable to build, which is why there aren't anywhere near enough. Maybe if Ben Carson could wake up long enough, he could look into changing that situation so people who earn a pittance can actually live near where they work.

So we should raise taxes to give people homes which then raised the cost of living even higher.

What's your solution? Or do you just not care?

Sadly, there likely isn't a solution for 75 to 80%

 

[OldLady]

Yep - Sad

First-Ever Evictions Database Shows: 'We're In the Middle Of A Housing Crisis'

The cities are expensive to live in, but the working poor need public transportation to work, which means living in the city. It's a no win situation.
I read an article a little while ago that explained why affordable subsidized rent properties are so unprofitable to build, which is why there aren't anywhere near enough. Maybe if Ben Carson could wake up long enough, he could look into changing that situation so people who earn a pittance can actually live near where they work.

So we should raise taxes to give people homes which then raised the cost of living even higher.

What's your solution? Or do you just not care?

Sadly, there likely isn't a solution for 75 to 80%

There are always solutions, if we put our mind to it.

 

[Pop23]

Yep - Sad

First-Ever Evictions Database Shows: 'We're In the Middle Of A Housing Crisis'

The cities are expensive to live in, but the working poor need public transportation to work, which means living in the city. It's a no win situation.
I read an article a little while ago that explained why affordable subsidized rent properties are so unprofitable to build, which is why there aren't anywhere near enough. Maybe if Ben Carson could wake up long enough, he could look into changing that situation so people who earn a pittance can actually live near where they work.

So we should raise taxes to give people homes which then raised the cost of living even higher.

What's your solution? Or do you just not care?

Sadly, there likely isn't a solution for 75 to 80%

There are always solutions, if we put our mind to it.

Sadly, it's not our minds that really matter

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Yet....we have more empty homes in America than at any other time in history.
There are actually more vacant homes in America, then there are homeless.

You can thank both Timothy Geithner and Obama for that. It is how they cleaned up the mortgage mess of 2008.
They paid back the mortgage holders 100 cents on the dollar of millions of mortgages, yet...the homeowner still owed the bill...go figure...so homeowners everywhere lost their homes...but the investment firms were paid in full for their losses.
Now there are millions of empty homes where no one relaly cares about them because YOU paid the investment firms instead of the mortgagee...yet they were still kicked out.

Thank the people who put us into the mortgage mess.

And the worst thing is, you probably believe what you just typed.
Glossing over Geithner and Obama's role....they paid the HUGE investment firms 100% value, INCLUDING PROFITS while kicking out the homeowner.
If it would have been a Republican President/Secy. Treasurer that did this, the press would have been exploding for days.
But...because it was Obama....nada.

 

[The Irish Ram]

Then by all means, let's invite all of Mexico here to compete for housing...

 

[AsianTrumpSupporter]

And yet liberals want to give amnesty to about 13 million illegal immigrants and keep our borders open.

 

[Penelope]

And yet liberals want to give amnesty to about 13 million illegal immigrants and keep our borders open.

Trump wants them to work on the farms for cheap labor.

 

[AsianTrumpSupporter]

And yet liberals want to give amnesty to about 13 million illegal immigrants and keep our borders open.

Trump wants them to work on the farms for cheap labor.

So long as they’re vetted and have work visas, that’s fine. Also, unemployed people on welfare should have to do some farm work or volunteer for a non-profit or government agency as well unless they have a medically documented disability that 100% precludes them from doing such work.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

Yep - Sad

First-Ever Evictions Database Shows: 'We're In the Middle Of A Housing Crisis'

The cities are expensive to live in, but the working poor need public transportation to work, which means living in the city. It's a no win situation.
I read an article a little while ago that explained why affordable subsidized rent properties are so unprofitable to build, which is why there aren't anywhere near enough. Maybe if Ben Carson could wake up long enough, he could look into changing that situation so people who earn a pittance can actually live near where they work.

So we should raise taxes to give people homes which then raised the cost of living even higher.

What's your solution? Or do you just not care?

You can give them an opportunity to better themselves. But it ends with an opportunity. If they choose not to do it then there’s no amount of welfare you can give out that will solve the problem.

 

[Harry Dresden]

And yet liberals want to give amnesty to about 13 million illegal immigrants and keep our borders open.

Trump wants them to work on the farms for cheap labor.

they have always worked on farms as cheap labor.....

 

[Missouri_Mike]

Yep - Sad

First-Ever Evictions Database Shows: 'We're In the Middle Of A Housing Crisis'

The cities are expensive to live in, but the working poor need public transportation to work, which means living in the city. It's a no win situation.
I read an article a little while ago that explained why affordable subsidized rent properties are so unprofitable to build, which is why there aren't anywhere near enough. Maybe if Ben Carson could wake up long enough, he could look into changing that situation so people who earn a pittance can actually live near where they work.

So we should raise taxes to give people homes which then raised the cost of living even higher.

Yes I so hope the next Dem Potus gets in and raises the top bracket to 45% and takes away most of their deduction and passive income as regular working income for those over a certain dollar limit.

So your solution is to do what Venezuela did. And you think it will end differently here? Why would you think that?

 

[DigitalDrifter]

By the way, I don't believe for a minute the average age of the "homeless" is 9.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

By the way, I don't believe for a minute the average age of the "homeless" is 9.

Yeah they are most likely using some pretty bent data to make that happen.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

By the way, I don't believe for a minute the average age of the "homeless" is 9.

Yeah they are most likely using some pretty bent data to make that happen.

Homeless advocates pulled that # out of their asses.

 

[grainbely]

Sounds like we have a parent crisis.

Parenting and general adulting is part of it but it's not an excuse to do the normal apathetic routine. Homelessness isn't directly our problem. Indirectly it amounts to big societal costs and opportunity costs. If one's worldview doesn't take into account the varying degrees of dynamic interdependence that different social and economic issues have then one severely limits their value to the discussion. In other words, if there's a festering wound causing damage to average or healthy tissue, it's in the best interest of the body to take action initially to cure it and if all else fails to let it die and be replaced. Taking action requires a solid effort or it's not worth it.

 

[IsaacNewton]

youth homelessness is a national epidemic!

And what would conservative jesus do? He'd cancel their healthcare and scream obsenities at them as they passed on the street.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

youth homelessness is a national epidemic!

And what would conservative jesus do? He'd cancel their healthcare and scream obsenities at them as they passed on the street.

'Pissed' on the street you mean.

 

[IsaacNewton]

youth homelessness is a national epidemic!

And what would conservative jesus do? He'd cancel their healthcare and scream obsenities at them as they passed on the street.

'Pissed' on the street you mean.

Ah, con jesus spoke to you today.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Tell them to move in with Mexicans. They don’t seem to have a problem finding housing in America.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

Sounds like we have a parent crisis.

Parenting and general adulting is part of it but it's not an excuse to do the normal apathetic routine. Homelessness isn't directly our problem. Indirectly it amounts to big societal costs and opportunity costs. If one's worldview doesn't take into account the varying degrees of dynamic interdependence that different social and economic issues have then one severely limits their value to the discussion. In other words, if there's a festering wound causing damage to average or healthy tissue, it's in the best interest of the body to take action initially to cure it and if all else fails to let it die and be replaced. Taking action requires a solid effort or it's not worth it.

In all of that typing you neither pointed out an additional cause or put forward a solution. So what are the causes and what do you plan on doing about it?