Editorial: The New York Times

• More than 146,000 New York City schoolchildren experienced homelessness during the last school year.
• Popular anger about the high cost of housing helped to fuel Mr. Trump’s comeback.
• It is the ninth straight year that the number of homeless schoolchildren in New York exceeded 100,000.
• Local and state laws mainly impede home building.
• The federal government estimates that 30 percent of income is the most a household can comfortably spend on rent.
• The number of New York schoolchildren who experienced homelessness in the 2023-24 school year was up 23 percent over the previous year.
• The only way to address the housing crisis in places like New York is to build housing in communities where people do not want it.

Conclusion: Democrats need to revive a sense of shared responsibility for societal problems and convince the comfortable and complacent that homelessness is their problem too.

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