Many of the causes of homelessness are anti-commodification:
“This is a family friendly neighborhood, we don’t want high arise apartments here. You can’t treat real estate like a commodity, these are peoples homes and communities! We need to preserve our neighborhoods character!”
I live in Buenos Aires, Argentina and it got really tiresome to hear the same people complaining about rent costs and lack of housing also complaining about high buildings, new apartments in their neighbourhood, etc. It's so annoying, they want all the cakes and eat them too.
“This is a family friendly neighborhood, we don’t want high arise apartments here. You can’t treat real estate like a commodity, these are peoples homes and communities! We need to preserve our neighborhoods character!”