A June 2026 political analysis described the American housing crisis using the phrase “governance fatigue.” That’s the clinical term they use when politicians have tried enough things — or pretended to — that they feel justified in giving up.
But there’s no fatigue in the encampments. There’s no fatigue in the families sleeping in their cars.
The upward redistribution of wealth has turned what used to be called the “middle class” into the “working poor.” Home ownership has become a fantasy for an entire generation.
“The poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.” — Ecclesiastes 9:16
Here’s what governance fatigue actually means: the people in power are tired of being asked to help people who have no lobbying budget. But developers do. Hedge funds do. REITs do. They’ve been buying up single-family homes at scale, converting the American Dream into a rent payment that goes to a portfolio manager in Manhattan.
This is what moral decay looks like when it has a business model.
Micah 2:2 — “They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them away; they oppress a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.”
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