Trump admin. worsens affordable housing crisis by favoring landlords, keeping the poor out
“Given the lack of affordable housing — the demand far exceeds the supply, and demand is growing — public housing is a last resort, and yet Carson is trying to put even that out of reach. The public’s landlord proposes to raise the rent on 4 million people by an average of 20 percent in order, he says, to push them to find work. But these people are working; they’re just not earning enough, and there are few affordable housing options for them. Indeed, poor and low-income people are often working two or three jobs to pay the rent.”