There’s One Way to Solve Homelessness in America. We’re Trying Something Else Instead.

Last Thursday , Cornelius Taylor was killed by an Atlanta city bulldozer.

The question of how to house the homeless, and in particular those who live on the street, has become a top issue in local politics.

The U.S. homeless population is up 18 percent to an all-time high.

The root cause of homelessness, the lack of affordable housing, remains stubbornly difficult to fix.

Federal rental-relief program kept vulnerable tenants in place during the pandemic.

After that money was spent, housing insecurity came roaring back.

Building more housing is the obvious solution, but many suburban towns will not hear of it.

Conservatives have formalized these policies at the state level.

LZ Granderson: We know how to build more affordable housing, but the will to build this is lacking.

He says we have a distorted mental image of homelessness in the U.S. Granderson says the avatar of homelessness is a person with mental illness and a drug problem who has lived outside for years .