A person sweeps outside during the grand opening of the Rose on Colfax, a new affordable housing community with a co-located childcare center in the East Colfax neighborhood, Jan. 24, 2024, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
\n\nCabin-like tiny homes are seen at a micro community in Denver on June 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert, File)
\n\nA window lets light into an empty bedroom in an affordable housing building run by Central City Concern, a homeless services nonprofit, March 15, 2024, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)
\n\nPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Mathew Davis, who lives in a homeless shelter in Austin, Texas, would love an apartment of his own. But with the little money he makes donating blood plasma, even a $450-a-month tiny home with no running water and a communal bathroom would be a stretch.
\n\nMeanwhile, over 4,500 units the city classifies as affordable — nearly 16% — sit empty.
\n\n“I don’t make enough money really to afford anything,” Davis, 49, said of the few hundred dollars he earns a month. “I just keep trying to swim uphill.”
\n\nThe poorest people in the U.S. face the most acute shortages of affordable homes. But the majority of low-income housing…
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