Presumably your own desire to maximize revenue. If you charge a rent that your tenant can't afford, then you get nothing.
Edit: which is common in desirable places with lots of well paying jobs.
There are cheap places to rent and buy in the fly over states but not as much opportunity, hence the price
Lack of food can be fixed in a day. Lack of housing can be impossible to overcome ever.
Both things could be fixed in a day. Also, both of them could be impossible to overcome ever. What's the distinction you're trying to draw. If it comes down to an acute situation where I had to choose, I (and most I think) would choose to eat. I understand in the real world, there probably wouldn't be such a clear choice.
Not when all the jobs in that household are here.
> People are not surfs and are not trapped or stuck living in a house they can't afford.
They are when all the jobs in that household are here.
> It might not happen overnight but populations do migrate due to housing costing too much.
People who are facing homelessness this year aren't thinking about market corrections that are decades away.