Why are Real Estate prices so high, and why can’t folks pay their rent? Any ideas?
Because of policies that make housing more expensive!
Rent control for instance is a favourite tool of the left, and has the effect of depressing investment in housing. Not granting permits to build more houses has a more direct effect.
The left usually run the cities and they are invariably shit-holes. Recently things seem to have gotten a whole lot worse with the bat-shit crazy of allowing "homeless" to set up their tents anywhere, and drag neighbourhoods down.
These "homeless" are just druggy criminal losers who don't want to work and they are increasing in number as the message being put out is "why should you work!"