But as we watch the rising floodwaters of our housing and homelessness crisis, I can’t help feeling the futility of bailing water against the tide. What would solve our housing crisis? Our housing crisis is not an unsolvable, abstract problem. Construction rent and operations rent are conceptual tools to help us understand why current programs and policies are not solving our housing crisis. If we decide to align our laws and our budgets with our humanity, we can solve our nation’s housing crisis.