Affordable housing

Ultra-cheap rentals declined in every state, especially in Texas and North Carolina, where renters from more expensive markets are moving.

There may be more supply, but it tends to cater to demand at the higher end of the income spectrum.

The neighborhood's decline in the early 1970s had roots in a scandal surrounding a federal program meant to boost home ownership.

… and now plans to move back to Arizona.

In Ouray, Colorado, high-priced housing is a labor force issue.

Lee County in Southwest Florida, where the storm made landfall, still faces monumental challenges housing people displaced by the storm.

"The long-term goal has to just be structurally changing this untenable housing system that we have," said Carl Gershenson, the project director at Princeton University’s Eviction Lab.

Hurricane Irma damaged or destroyed already dilapidated trailer homes in Immokalee, Florida, in 2017. An effort to build permanent affordable housing is now getting off the ground.

Officials who help oversee public lands say they are seeing a lot more families living in these spaces.

Measures include supporting the production of mobile homes and tiny houses, and piloting new ways of financing. But federal money isn't all it will take to change how, and where, people want to live.