Homelessness and housing insecurity in the United States are not so much a housing problem or a poverty problem as a visible sign that growing wealth inequality has left millions of people unable to earn enough to afford adequate housing. The classical economists David Ricardo and Henry George linked wealth inequality by arbitrage to unequal income and wages. The greater the inequality of wealth, the greater the inequality of income and the lower the wages at the bottom. Neoclassical economics has largely obscured this relationship. Consequently, proposals from both conservatives and liberals to address homelessness focus narrowly on housing. Ultimately, reducing wealth inequality requires national tax reform and a return to vigorous antitrust enforcement. However, cities can reduce local inequality by making property tax assessments uniform, or, better yet, by shifting to taxing land only.

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无家可归和不平等

在美国，无家可归者和住房无保障并不仅仅是住房问题或贫困问题，而是可见的迹象，即日益加剧的贫富不均使数百万人无法获得足够的收入以负担得起适足的住房。古典经济学家戴维·里卡多（David Ricardo）和亨利·乔治（Henry George）通过套利将财富不平等与收入和工资不平等联系在一起。财富的不平等越大，收入的不平等越大，底层的工资越低。新古典经济学在很大程度上掩盖了这种关系。因此，保守派和自由主义者提出的解决无家可归问题的建议都只针对住房。最终，要减少财富不平等，就需要进行国家税收改革，并要求大力实施反托拉斯法。但是，城市可以通过统一财产税评估来减少本地不平等现象，或者