When you're talking about health and chronic disease and the ability to be healthy and stay healthy,

there's several factors that are involved in that and one of them is really the ability to buy healthy food or even grow it if you have the land and also just be able to house

yourself as a starting point and in 2024 Americans were greeted to this headline from

NPR housing is now unaffordable for a record half of all U.S. renters study fines.

And so luckily, states are doing something about this.

And this conversation obviously, you know, why are these

houses unaffordable? Why can't people get housing? Well, we have storing interest rates. It makes people,

we have a whole generation of people that are having a hard time even affording a house.

We just came off the COVID pandemic response that really it shunted our economic engine in the United States.

But a part of this conversation has to be looked at too,

which is kind of the unchecked migration in the United States. You have a lot more people here. It's a simple equation.

And so states are doing something about this. In Oregon, we have Hasienda, this is a community development program, and they made this headline recently, first time homebuyers in Oregon get $30,000 grant, but American citizens aren't eligible.

And what are they talking about?

Well, Hacienda put out on their social media these two flyers, and we're going to take

a look at these really quick.

One of them says, here's the fire, $30,000

Oregon residents, conditions only for people who are not American citizens, for

example and it goes into the list of that and then you go to the second

fire the second page of this fire and under the category eligible citizenship

statuses non-U.S. citizens, undocumented persons, DACA recipients, refugees,

immigrants, and on and on it goes. Well, this caused a lot of people to kind of pump the brakes

and go, wait a minute, we're in the middle of a housing crisis.

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