Bobby Turner & Chris Paul: How to ease America’s growing housing crisis

Bobby Turner and Turner Impact Capital investor Chris Paul authored an op-ed for CNBC.com highlighting how for-profit, market-based solutions can make a meaningful difference in addressing our nation’s affordable housing crisis.

It is a shameful irony that at a time when staying home has been so essential to protecting our health and our communities, an alarming number of families are in danger of eviction.

Housing is much more than a place to live. It is a foundation for success in life. We know that children do better in school, grown-ups do better on the job, and health outcomes improve for everyone when they have a safe, stable, healthy place to call home. America faced a severe housing crisis long before the coronavirus appeared, with nearly half of all renter households considered “rent-burdened.” But with the outbreak surging to new heights, the crisis has exploded into a full-blown emergency, as the pandemic has torpedoed many sectors of our economy and destroyed millions of jobs.

Read the full article at https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/06/op-ed-harnessing-market-forces-for-good-can-ease-americas-growing-housing-crisis.html

Originally published at https://www.cnbc.com on January 6, 2021.