Affordable housing crissis is spreading

[Optimistic Paranoid]

There's prob around 140 million housing units in the US. If 10% of those are vacant(the actual % is higher), that's 14 million empty housing units. Homeless numbers in the US range from 500k to upwards 3 million. Hard to find good numbers on low income housing, but prob around 5 million households get rent assistance. Not sure what my point is, but something to do with there's enough housing for everyone.

"There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed." - Mahatma Gandhi

There may be, on AVERAGE, a sufficiency nationwide, but people tend to move from where there are no jobs to where the jobs are.  (Actually, we're also seeing people fleeing from states like MA, CA, and NY to places where the taxes are lower.)

The problem seems to be that there isn't enough affordable housing in places where the economic growth is happening.