right before 14 democratic senators led by senator jack reed urged the administration to add homeless assistance. so democrats were pleading with the president if you give ukraine $24 billion can we do $5 billion in emergency housing vouchers because this is a problem around the country. again, you have senators, democratic senators from ohio, minnesota, connecticut, new york, vermont, rhode island, oregon, hawaii, arizona, georgia, massachusetts. it is a national problem. it is a serious, sad, tough national problem. bill: put this up, guys. rise in housing costs, we touched on that. lack of affordable rental units and opioid crisis. those three things go together? they do. some of it, i think the mental health issue probably is up there right with opioids.
right now. thank you very much for your time. yep. what does it look like inside your rental property right now? so we are looking at about it depends. we have nine buildings here, it s kind of ground 0, you can see all the mud, the sediment, so looking at a half inch of silt and mud just on the livable quarters on all units. some units are worse. all of the basements are flooded to the very top. some units had about three and a half feet of water in them. we have currently got 12 rental units that have been affected with nine that were occupied that are out of a place to live right now. they didn t have very long to get their items out. it was not like irene where they had a chance to be warned about it. it was just a lot of rain and it started coming and had probably an hour and a half. i was in touch with them, my crew was in touch with them, we recommend that you know, more than likely you need to seek
to do with the tight labor market. russia s war in ukraine raised food and energy prices, um, the disruption from the pandemic, um caused supply bottlenecks that led to outright shortages pushed up, for example. the prices of cars dramatically new and used cars because of shortages of semiconductors. we re seeing those supply chain bottlenecks that boosted inflation. they re beginning to resolve. we had big shifts in the way people live. um and low interest rates and housing prices rose a lot now housing prices of essentially settled down rental prices of new rental units moved up a lot, but they have now settled down in her falling and that s an