NPR.

I have lived in a lot of different cities from Chicago to Boston,

from New York to DC, and all these places have the same basic problem.

Too many people, not enough affordable housing.

And so occasionally I have thought,

what if I moved away from the big cities, right?

Somewhere to the country, you know, where the corn grows high

and the housing costs are low.

I hate to burst your bubble Adrian,

but the country has its own housing troubles.

Welcome back, Stephen Bessaha,

Golf State's Newsroom reporter and Dream Crusher.

I wear many hats.

But it's true, while the grass might be greener when you're surrounded by asphalt,

rural areas, they have their own housing crisis, a rural housing crisis.

And the reason that's important beyond, you know, needing a place to just live is that housing is one of the main ways people build generational wealth.

Okay. As the name implies, it's the passing down of wealth from one generation to another. Housing is used to do that in both urban and rural spots,

but like it often goes, things work just a bit differently, whether you live in urban America or the country.

This is the indicator for Planamani.

I'm Adrian Ma.

And I'm Stephen Bissaha from the Gulf State's newsroom.

We're a family of public radio stations in Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana.

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