Strikingly, this crisis of housing insecurity is erupting in America’s richest, most rapidly developing cities. New York,... Washington, D.C., ... Seattle is close behind. In Los Angeles and Charlotte, San Jose and Nashville, the trends are similar. Unemployment is at a generational low; corporate profits have surged; ... Yet the teachers, maintenance workers, supermarket cashiers, and medical assistants who help sustain these cities are getting relentlessly priced out of them.
I am not sure if this is naivety or if the author is being disingenuous to make a point, but the housing crisis in these big cities is almost entirely an addiction problem, where it's not an addiction problem, it's almost always a mental health problem.
Not to minimize the plight of Cokethia, as the economy is clearly broken (and getting rapidly worse) for those who can't demand premium wages.
edit: s/and have a lot of dependents//