No Room at the Inn: Housing Policy and the Homeless

My argument can be advanced through a syllogism that I hope to prove in succeeding sections: 1. Homelessness is primarily caused not by personal deficiencies, but by structural problems in metropolitan housing markets. 2. As a housing market problem, it is primarily a matter of inadequate supply, not inadequate economic demand. 3. A major cause of the inadequate supply of low income rental housing in large metropolitan areas with expanding service economies is the unintended effects of government policies. 4. Q.E.D.: to solve the problem of homelessness, it is not enough simply to spend more money on shelters; instead, housing policies, at all levels of government, must be redirected