The problems revealed in your interview with Jackie Fielder (“Is it time to decolonize the housing market?” February 2021) are as real as they have been for the history of our nation. The pandemic and the renter problems it has caused and magnified are huge and absolutely impossible to ignore.
If we don’t answer the challenge and start treating housing as a right and not an entitled privilege, our society will fail. As skeptical as I have always been about meeting the needs of those without, I am more optimistic at this point that we are at the start of a new and better economy and society. Some of that optimism comes from interviews like yours. Reading that Fielder is out there saying clearly what needs to happen keeps me on the right track. Thanks to you both.
Tim Funk
Crossroads Urban Center
Salt Lake City, Utah
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Housing challenges.
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