The ignorance around housing policy is unfortunate. It is actually not complicated: zoning vs. population determines the number of homeless, income distribution determines who they will be. Changing the latter will literally not change the number of homeless people at all.
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And to the best of my knowledge, this is not something controversial. It's widely acknowledged among those who study this problem. Homelessness is a supply / demand problem, not a pricing problem, and if you keep pretending it's a pricing problem you will never solve it.
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Finally, cities can (and some finally are) actually fix this problem. Recently, for example: https://slate.com/business/2018/12/minneapolis-single-family-zoning-housing-racism.html …
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