Public housing is sold off like family silver, the safety net torn apart piece by piece. Instead of building secure homes, governments step back and leave people at the mercy of the market. The result isn’t surprising: homelessness grows, rents surge, and families are forced into impossible choices between food, bills, and shelter.
This isn’t misfortune; it’s by design. Scarcity in housing is a feature, not a flaw — the lever that turns a roof over your head into a profit stream.
And when the crisis peaks? Private landlords arrive dressed as rescuers. But their “help” is underwritten with public money — subsidies, supplements, emergency payouts.
Wealth is siphoned upward while tenants remain trapped. The public pays twice: once by losing public housing, and again by funding private profit.
That’s why so many will never know the security of a home they own, or the stability of passing one on to their children. Shelter has been stripped of its humanity and sold back as a commodity.
The crisis machine doesn’t want housing solved; it wants dependence maintained. Stability is the enemy; scarcity is the strategy.
The Crisis Machine: It’s by design.