America is in the midst of a housing shortage. Affordable housing options are shrinking, and there is an ongoing spike in housing costs. For many people, the rollercoaster housing market and US housing policy are a cause of instability.
Expensive housing also drives increasing economic and racial inequality and worse health outcomes. Meanwhile on any one night, there are over half a million Americans who are unhoused, and millions more live, if not on the streets, then on the edge of homelessness.
This is why the Guardian is publishing Through the roof, a year-long series about how the dream of finding an affordable home to rent or buy has come to seem so unattainable.
If you would like to share your story, please contact housing.editors@theguardian.com.
(And thanks to our New York-based reader Giorgi Toreli for inspiring our series name.)
