I mean, I agree that it’s unaffordable, and that building up is a solution to that, but homelessness is rarely caused by housing costs being too high.

Most people who can’t afford the rising cost of living in an area either add roommates or move somewhere cheaper.

To end up in a tent in an encampment is almost always correlated with drug use or mental illness.

Which isn’t to say we shouldn’t take care of those people. We should. But lack of housing is almost never the limiting factor there.