 That's Dr. Deborah Padgett, professor of social work and global public health at the Silver School of Social Work at New York University. For any given person, it's often a matter of a life of poverty, sometimes of trauma, and then a medical crisis or an eviction based on landlords upgrading the properties, raising the rent exorbitantly. Those kinds of things happen at the downstream or sort of the proximal level. But the ultimate cause of homelessness is