Minnesota

The Twin Cities is one of the more affluent metro areas in th US and yet we have many that can't afford a place to live, even though working. I've watched housing being destroyed for many years to build freeways, malls and whatever. The population of the City of Minneapolis actually fell for many years because so much housing had been torn down and is now up to about 1970 levels, but there is a shortage of housing that drives rents higher and higher. If I didn't own my house there is no way I could afford to live here in retirement. Rents seem to start at around 900-1100 per month, which means you need to make over $30000 per year to just exist. Section 8 is hopeless with a waiting line so long that the last I heard they weren't even taking applicants. We need a complettely new housing policy in the United States. Relying on private developers for affordable housing has been a complette flop. What little public housing we have is inadequately maintained because of underfunding.