Ms. Audet, 49, earns over $72,000 a year as a social worker for the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services.

The cutoff for receiving housing assistance in King County is 80 percent of the median income, or $70,650, said Benjamin Maritz, a member of the King County Regional Homelessness Authority Implementation Board.

Good grief.

At $72k/yr is really fucked that the person featured here had to live like that. There needs to be laws keeping rent affordable.

A healthy market based economy we got here.

This is like a Wish dot com version of /r/UpliftingNews

This is the richest country in the history of humanity.