An Unvarnished Look at Affordable Housing

Did you know that three-quarters of households are so poor that they qualify for government-subsidized housing but cannot get it due to lack of government funding? And when people pay too much for housing compared to their income, they don’t have money for healthy food, child care, health insurance, and transportation. Jerry Sternberg, a long-time friend of Pisgah Legal’s, doesn’t pull any punches in his column in Mountain Xpress.