US cities expand affordable housing to solve homeless crisis
More major cities are reviving single-room occupancy housing as poverty becomes a growing epidemic.
Many Americans live in poverty, unable to find affordable housing.
For more than a century, thousands were spared from homelessness by inexpensive, single-room hotels; but rising costs and the lure of growing real-estate values diminished the number of these homes across the US.
That is starting to change.
Al Jazeera’s John Hendren reports from Chicago.
Published On 2 Oct 2018