Salim Furth
Economist, senior research fellow and director of the Urbanity project at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, working on housing and land use.
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Expensive housing causes homelessness by shrinking the spare room friends and family can offer, not by pricing people out of apartments they were going to rent.
Where housing costs are moderate, friends and family have bigger homes. When they are higher, friends and family don’t have space to share, and this is often what puts a vulnerable person onto the streets.
worksinprogress.newsSaid 29 Jan 2025This on korrents
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Expensive housing causes homelessness by shrinking the spare room friends and family can offer, not by pricing people out of apartments they were going to rent.
Where housing costs are moderate, friends and family have bigger homes. When they are higher, friends and family don’t have space to share, and this is often what puts a vulnerable person onto the streets.
From the vault: Why housing shortages cause homelessness Said 29 Jan 2025
The American cities with the highest housing prices have the worst homelessness, and that correlation is the strongest evidence the two are connected.
The American cities with the highest housing prices have the worst homelessness problems.
From the vault: Why housing shortages cause homelessness Said 29 Jan 2025
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