Being homeless is stressful on a level that people who have never experienced it cannot possibly imagine.

And even being homeless for short periods of time is incredibly stressful, incredibly deleterious to people's public health.

Also, if you're predisposed to self-medicate with some sort of substance, I mean, good God.

I mean, just imagine like if you're living in a tent on the street, I mean, you like wanting to escape that scenario for just some brief period.

Hello, and welcome to Wise This Happening with me, your host, Chris Hayes.

If you are right now a person who is attempting to either purchase a house or rent a house, particularly purchase or rent a house, particularly rent a house in a major metropolitan area in America.

New York City where I'm walking up to live, the Washington DC metro area, Chicago, the East Bay, Oakland, San Francisco, notoriously Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Austin, Texas.

I can name a bunch of places Nashville, Tennessee, right? All of the places I've named are great cities, and I'm going to be a great city.

I can name a bunch of places Nashville, Tennessee, right? All of the places I've named are great cities, awesome places to live.

Obviously with all sorts of complicated socioeconomic and political problems and issues, in equality, stratification, segregation and public education, like all of the stuff that we know about the fabric American life.

But also, like, great places to live.

And I am a city kid, as you know, if you listen to podcasts, I grew up in the Bronx.

I've lived my whole life in cities.

I've lived in Washington DC, Chicago, New York, and Providence, Rhode Island.

Those are four places I've lived, all of them within the actual city limits in the city,

taking public transportation, living city life.

I love cities.

A lot of people love cities, actually.

There was a period of time where people didn't want to live in cities.

The problem in a lot of cities for a very long period of time was not that rent was too high.

In fact, it was the opposite.

It was often that people were fleeing those cities.

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