Commentary By Margi Glavovic Nothard.
It’s not breaking news: America is in the middle of an affordable housing crisis.
Half of U.S. renters are considered rent-burdened, spending 30% or more of their income on rent and utilities — a record high. We’re short more than seven million affordable, available rental homes for extremely low-income Americans.
State by state, city by city, millions of Americans are struggling. Many are living on the streets of our largest metropolitan areas. The struggle is so real that affordable housing has emerged as a top political issue in 2024. According to the latest polling, 77% of Americans report an affordable housing crisis in their local communities, with even more (80%) claiming their city and county officials are not doing enough to solve the problem.
To read the Sun Sentinel article go to https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2024/08/01/solving-americas-affordable-housing-crisis-opinion/