This Is a Housing Crisis

Well everyone, Mel here, and I wish I had a happier video to make but there just isn't a way to sugarcoat this topic. 

A few weeks ago, after a lot of prayer and contemplation, I felt an incredible pull to look into our housing situation. Once I looked, it was like a train wreck. I wanted to, but I couldn't look away. What is happening out there on our streets right now is unprecedented in our lifetimes. Crazier, it has seemingly only been talked about in little bits and pieces on local news stations from what I can tell... but that's the thing. 

It's everywhere. And, like the Nothing in "Neverending Story," it's spreading.

I shouldn't have been able to find as many clips for this report as I did. I actually had to cut some out or it would have been well over two hours long. The point I'm making (or trying to, I'm running on very little sleep after days of editing) is that there was just an incredible amount of material coming out by the day. In fact, after I recorded my initial audio, more and more started pouring out into the local news, so that I almost felt like I was drowning in it at one point. Then my audio recorder broke and I had to use a backup to keep adding things in; finally I just had to call it. 

This affects us all. As this situation is currently unfolding, the feeling I get is I don't think we've seen anything yet. I hope I'm wrong.

I know Aaron would find a way to be much more poetic about this than I have been. I'm admittedly still a bit shocked. You'd think after a decade that wouldn't be the case anymore, but I have to admit. I can't believe we are where we are. And while everyone is arguing on social media about all kinds of stuff that doesn't actually matter like Johnny Depp's trial and Twitter and whatever, meanwhile, this is happening all around us out in our streets right now as I sit here typing this. 

It was an incredibly hard topic to make a video on; I cried more than once. So I know how upsetting this can be, but I'd be remiss in what I feel is my responsibility to my fellow humans if I didn't make this video.

It will be set to premiere for everyone in a few mins but right now it's unlisted and only you can see it.

I'm going to go lay down now. And spend a weekend looking at literally anything else but this computer screen. 

I love you guys. Very much.

Melissa