Food and water, are the two essentials for life itself. One might think that while food and water insecurity might be a problem in some third world country, like Afghanistan or Somalia, it could hardly be much of an issue in a country as rich as the United States. And yet, irrefutably, it is. And there is a linkage between food and water insecurity and scarcity and homelessness that needs to be much better understood. The basic processes I am going to describe are taking place all over the world; but here I am going to focus on the United States.

According to a Gallup Organization 2019 study: “55% of Americans worry a great deal about hunger and homelessness.”1 That’s 183,700,000 Americans, and matters have only gotten worse, as the numbers have gone up during the Covid Pandemic. Recognizing and understanding the linkage between water and food insecurity and homelessness, I suggest, have become critically important to social wellbeing of American society.

The president’s Council of Economic Advisers reported in 2019: “Due to decades of misguided and faulty policies, homelessness is a serious problem. Over half a million […]