At a macro level many basic needs are not being met in the US. As a nation __sufficient__ housing construction has not happened in many decades. Worse it is conflated with being the main investment vehicle for the people lucky enough to have gotten in early, a profit making center for others, and various 'neighborhood character' centered motives prevent the housing around cities from growing the way the jobs had prior to the pandemic.
That's what's driving the relocation; the homelessness; the migration of people from areas their families and (probably already strained) support structures (which we can hope exist; this isn't always the case).
Area too expensive to live in? Blame housing. Can't find workers at a price you want to pay? Probably also housing. It shocks and saddens me that a real solution to the housing crisis hasn't even been discussed as a political talking point my entire adult life. Not even during the (previous?) recession literally caused by housing issues.