Pandemics are war zones, but for the un-housed their war zone is not temporary

After the second world war, with thousands of Canadians neding homes it was found possible to invest the resources to  build housing for them. But despite its much trumpeted triple A credit rating Canada in 2020 has  thousands homeless again. The problem is lack of affordable housing stock, yes, but the primary reason is the failure of state to intervene in a marketplace that chooses to rake in large profits from high-rise/high cost condos rather than house all those unable to buy what the market is selling. Affordable housing is the recipe to solve the Canadian homelessness problem, this in one of the richest countries in the world. It is beyond time to break the chains of neo-liberalism that paralyze the country's inclusionary capacities. This was done in the last wave of "home-fullness" way back in the 1970's when, with the assistance of public funding  co-op and other non-profit housing spread across the land. Like the coronavirus homelessness is a national emergency. We know how to fix it, but before we can we must make the political choice to do so.