The New York Times in 2022 called homelessness a simple game of “musical chairs: Imagine there are 10 people for nine chairs. It’s thousands of games of musical chairs with new tunes on a jukebox every five minutes as participants run, walk, or weave. Let’s start with the view from 40,000 feet: America has 134 million households and 146 million housing units, which means that at any one point, we have 12 million year-round vacant housing units. Here’s what surprised the authors: “At least one-quarter of those experiencing homelessness had higher incomes than most single housed poor adults. … Those experiencing homelessness, particularly sheltered homelessness, look very much like single housed poor adults who share their demographic profile in terms of their incomes, employment, and safety net participation.”