Just so you remember.  The social distribution of wealth and the costs of housing are very separate and wholly unrelated issues to whether a country can create enough green technologies to reduce their carbon footprint by 80%.

Of course, I will always argue that the BEST way to eliminate homelessness is to create more good-paying jobs (well, duh!)  And the surest way to prosperity is to employ people to build an infrastructure that operates on solar income rather than burn natural capital.

If we do the right thing by the ecosphere, we can afford to do the right things socially.

"Remember the I35W bridge--who needs terrorists when there are Republicans"