We love solutions to housing that sound good but won’t work, like rent control and subsidizing demand. Building more is unpopular because it would actually work.

The same goes for homelessness. Feel good sound good solutions are popular. Housing the homeless is not.

BTW I have this weird crazy hypothesis that there might be a connection between homelessness and insufficient housing supply. Like, people not in a home, and not enough homes. I know it’s a stretch.

Sometimes I feel like there are other problems like this that we don’t really want to solve but want to pretend to solve.