The Affluent Homeless: A Sleeping Pod, A Hired Desk And A Handful Of Clothes
“He’s part of a newish group of young people. He is educated and owns his own business. He could be considered well off, but he is also, in a way, homeless. By choice. There are two big reasons for this shift: the price of housing and student loan debt. A little more than a third of millennials currently own homes, a rate lower than Generation X and baby boomers when they were the same age. But is there something else going on as well? Does Johnson represent a fundamental shift in American capitalism as we know it?”