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1 week agoPoliticians are mistaken on issue of homelessness - The Bulletin
Homelessness often results from pandemic-era housing displacement and rising rents, not personal choices or lack of effort.
"There are very real economic forces that are limiting the options for non-college-educated men in the United States. Some of what we're seeing is simply rational responses to a system that's pricing them out."
Rowynn Dumont, a curator, painter, photographer and writer, lived in about 25 places around the world before settling in New York in 2017. It's where my community and the art world infrastructure already were, said Dumont. Exhibits in Union Square, the Flatiron District, Long Island City and the Lower East Side featured her work. She also co-founded a popular monthly new wave dance party, Black Rainbow, on the Lower East Side that would go until 10am.
These findings underscore the depth and breadth of the housing crisis, which is increasingly pricing out working families across the country regardless of geography or profession, said David M. Dworkin, president and CEO of the National Housing Conference. The housing affordability crisis is now hitting families in every metro area, for nearly every occupation. The analysis of 390 metropolitan areas found that nearly one-third now require double the income needed just six years ago to purchase a home.