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Hello, welcome to factually, I'm Adam Conover.

And today, we're facing something that I like to call a national

housing crisis I don't like to call it that I don't like to call it anything but

that is what it is people in America do not have places to live that they can afford and

unless you miss this people need a place to live. You know just like they need water or food. You know you fundamentally just have to live. You know, just like they need water or food. You fundamentally just have to have a place to be as being part of a physical object extended in space. You know, you need a place to put your mass, just like, you know, think about how a car needs a garage, you need a garage, but for your body, you know, because that's the thing that holds your brain in it.

You follow I don't need me to keep going on all right and yet that fundamental need is all too hard to find for people in this country and frankly in many other places in the world.

You can see this crisis in the high rates of rent-burdened people,

the number of evictions and the high rates of homelessness.

Say you're a renter with a minimum wage full-time job and you'd like to rent a two-bedroom apartment.

Well, hey, why not? You got a job, you should be able to, right?

Well, a study in 2018 found that if this was you, you would be able to afford an apartment in exactly zero counties nationwide.

I'm just going to say that again. A person with a minimum wage full-time job is unable to rent a two-bedroom apartment anywhere in America.

I don't think that's how society should function, do you? I think there's a

I think it indicates that there's a problem here and I should add that in no place is the

housing crisis more pernicious and more clear of a problem than where I live

California and that's a little surprising because there are jobs in California.

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