Finding Your Place: How unaffordable housing drives homelessness

<p>If there&#8217;s been a defining trend in American cities thus far in the 21st century, it&#8217;s been the rise of housing prices to astronomical levels. That&#8217;s also meant a huge increase in the number of people who aren&#8217;t able to afford a place to live, according to Gregg Colburn, a professor at the University of Washington who co-authored the book <a href="https://homelessnesshousingproblem.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">“Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns.&#8221;</a> We spoke with him as part of our new &#8220;Finding Your Place&#8221; series exploring the reality of homelessness in America. And finally, the debt ceiling deal struck over the weekend faces a legislative test in Congress.</p>