Where are the homes?
Homelessness holds folks back
High rents suffocate a generation
A lack of homes
Keeps people priced out
Even when
Unemployment is going down
Folks are working more
And living less
This doesn’t make sense
Unless you see
The systems driving up rents
From interest rates to
NIMBY traits
The homeowners holding back
Everybody else
Protecting their equity
At the expense of folks dignity
Don’t build homes near me
They scream to their local politicians
They make their donations
They push their pleas
Successfully stoping homes
For regular people to achieve
Making our cities unaffordable
Making work not pay
Growing their wealth
By pushing everybody else
To a knee
The NIMBYS are taking away
Opportunities for folks to live affordably
The politicians are helping them
Developers do as they are told
Just build big fancy homes
That don’t work for regular folks
Give developers a quasi-monopoly
So they can raise rents
As high as they want
Cause there is no competition
To keep them in check
This is America today
Rich folks controlling who gets homes
And making everybody else betray
Their dreams
Diving our communities into the ground
Making folks work
But ensuring they can’t afford to stay
Building homes in the USA
Should be the American way
Everybody should have access to a roof
That doesn’t take away their ability
To afford life’s truths