everyday perspectives

The stress and anxiety of how to survive while waiting for the grinding gears of government is suddenly mainstream. Stories about the outdated technology, the wait times, the indignity of the application process, and the administrative burdens are front and center; stories about bad landlords in Hawai’i went viral. But there are hundreds of thousands of us for whom trying to figure out how to make rent has been daily life for a while, even before the pandemic. These are the stories and everyday perspectives that we want to capture as data that you share.