Our housing betrayals - Same inaction, same old crisis

Our shameful housing crisis has been in the headlines for so long now that it would not be surprising if a contemporary version of donor fatigue kicks in. 

Many years ago many of us became so inured to the horrors of televised famine that we just looked away rather than continue to make contributions towards resolving the crisis.

Today, the idea of being without a home, of being family without a home is so far beyond the consciousness of most of us — thankfully — that we can’t process it, that we can’t see ourselves in that horror story so we look away, wondering how this deep social failure can ever be resolved.