The big issue candidates are ignoring in 2016

By Joseph Lawler

Published February 29, 2016 5:01am ET

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The big issue candidates are ignoring in 2016 — Nearly 12 million households spend more than half their income on rent, according to Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies. The problem is only going to get worse as baby boomers age and look for rentals while more lower-earning minority families look for housing. (AP photo) | Mark Humphrey

Hillary Clinton is the only presidential candidate to have proposed a plan for alleviating the nation’s lack of housing, amid a national crisis in the affordability of renting.

The biggest strength of the plan that the Democratic presidential front-runner released this month in South Carolina is that it exists. All of the other presidential candidates have been silent on the issue.

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