Young American families used to live in tar paper shacks and dugouts. No education, no welfare, no shoes. As bad as things are now, they are nothing compared to the old days. Real housing has always been in short supply. There is nothing new about that. What is new today is people are not nearly as tough as they used to be. Any reasonably enterprising person can do wonders with a regular welfare check. Imagine starting out with no money at all. That was the usual starting point in the past. You start with labor, and then savings, and charity, and build up from there. Same as it ever was. The whole point is it is supposed to be hard. That's the part that makes you into a decent hard working person. Improvise, adapt, and overcome. Your ancestors did. The worthy lift themselves out of the chaos. It's sink or swim. When it all becomes too easy then the population turns into shit. Shallow vain stupid helpless drug addicted hypocrites, whining about their gibs, incapable of simply providing for themselves, never mind others. The fall of civilization. The power goes off and everybody dies like the frozen idiots they now are. To keep the civilization, it needs to be hard. The left pushes welfare to create dependency, because their true purpose is to destroy. The first question you need to answer is, is the issue really an issue?