Homelessness was nowhere near as bad as it is  after 8 years of  "Hope and Change"   But your right though, both parties share the blame and have allowed  Communist  Chinese and other foreign  investors  to drive up the price of real estate to the point that  the average homebuyers are squeezed out of the market by international   bidding wars for property used exclusively for 'investment purposes'  The investors  will never 'see' the properties they are buying and in some cases will actually leave real estate sit  empty waiting for the 'right price'  which has a tendency to put upwards pressure on the overall cost. 

  We have been selling our soul to the devil for years, so why not our real estate to the Communists?  Makes about as much sense as anything else done in today's wacky world of weirdness. Our nation is being bought up right out from under us while we are entranced with entertaining ourselves by the latest in  Hollowood  'amusements'.  "Hollow" is the key word