America’s Affordable Housing Problem

How America got to be so unaffordable, and what we can do to make it more affordable; an analysis of good-in-theory v. outcome based policies

Homeless Encampment overlooking Downtown LA. Source: Richard Vogel, AP

America has been struggling through a crippling housing crisis for much of the last decade. Many may intuitively feel this, but the data is even starker than emotions suggest.

Nearly half of all renters, amounting to 20 million households, are burdened by housing costs. 10 million rent…