Terms like “rent burdened” and “housing crisis” are accurate as far as they go. But they also put an economic lens on a much broader problem: There are millions of Americans who, despite working as hard as they can for well beyond regular full-time hours, have little chance of breaking a cycle of substandard housing that costs so much of their income and time that improving their families’ plights is all but out of reach.

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