Salim Furth
Person on 2 sites
Economist, senior research fellow and director of the Urbanity project at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, working on housing and land use.
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Expensive housing causes homelessness by shrinking the spare room friends and family can offer, not by pricing people out of apartments they were going to rent. (opens korrents.com)
“Where housing costs are moderate, friends and family have bigger homes. When they are higher, friends and family don’t have space to share, and this is often what puts a vulnerable person onto the streets.”
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The American cities with the highest housing prices have the worst homelessness, and that correlation is the strongest evidence the two are connected. (opens korrents.com)
“The American cities with the highest housing prices have the worst homelessness problems.”
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Expensive housing causes homelessness by shrinking the spare room friends and family can offer, not by pricing people out of apartments they were going to rent. (opens korrents.com)