That’s different than more than a third of Americans being homeless in 10 days.
It’s tough and none of this should be happening, but it often takes those who lose a previously well-paying job far too long to bite the bullet and seriously cut their expenses. They think because they once made $X in income they are forever entitled to live in the manner they could once afford. Instead, by holding on with that mindset they spend themselves to ruin when they don’t have sufficient income coming in.
And those census surveys are always sensationalistic and way off. They ask leading questions that make it end up sounding like half the country is “food insecure”—or whatever it is they are scare mongering that month.
And what kind of leftist are you? That NYTimes piece is right that vulture investors will win as always with these created crises, but that we need to move to the communistic UBI as a solution is just putting us into full CCP/globalist enslavement.
It is not good that we’ve got 6% of mortgage holders in forbearance, but certainly not surprising given what we’ve done to ourselves this year.